603 Quotes by Alexander McCall Smith

One of the most destructive things that's happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together - which can lead to nightmares of social collapse.

Each of us is born into our own mysteries...but the mystery of another might just take us in and embrace us. And then what a sense of homecoming, of belonging!

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

The local community is very important in one's life; the feelings of identification with a place and people.

Small things may be important to us; to be a sometime anything is sometimes something.

It seems to me that we're in danger of losing sight of certain basic civic values in society by allowing the growth of a whole generation of people who really have no sense of attachment to society.

I would certainly never consider myself a Renaissance Man; I'm not fit to look at the dust from the chariot wheels of many of those who have gone before me.

Who can't like pigs? They're wonderful creatures! I've always liked pigs.

We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.