If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank statements before they tell us what we could or should do with our own money. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana 04-07
In reality most human beings are not, to most human beings, more important than money. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana 04-07
In some cases, you can tell how somebody is being treated by their own boss from the way they are treating someone to whom they are a boss. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana 04-07
It goes without saying that even those of us who are going to hell will get eternal life—if that territory really exists outside religious books and the minds of believers, that is. Having said that, given the choice, instead of being grilled until hell freezes over, the average sane human being would, needless to say, rather spend forever idling in an extremely fertile garden, next to a lamb or a chicken or a parrot, which they do not secretly want to eat, and a lion or a tiger or a crocodile, which does not secretly want to eat them. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana 04-07
Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not all underdeveloped and developing countries look up to and aspire to someday be developed countries. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana 04-07
Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana 04-07
Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana 04-07
Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of us who will never be or have not yet been pushed or pulled into old age. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana 04-07
Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana 04-07
Many a parent, sad to say, has used their child as an opportunity for them, the parent, to do, through their child, something or some of the things that they, the parent, did not do or did not do successfully. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana 04-07