There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.

- Alexander Mccall Smith

A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people…

- Alexander Mccall Smith

How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place.

- Alexander Mccall Smith

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

- Alexander Mccall Smith

Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you ha…

- Alexander Mccall Smith

Most people want nothing to happen. That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time; they are always very busy t…

- Alexander Mccall Smith

The Culture of Complaint... We live in a culture of complaint because everyone is always looking for things to complain about. It's all tied in with …

- Alexander Mccall Smith

The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.

- Alexander Mccall Smith

Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have to learn how to give, but we forget about acceptin…

- Alexander Mccall Smith