A witch ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest, Granny Weatherwax had once told her, because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her.

I’m not superstitious. I’m a witch. Witches aren’t superstitious. We are what people are superstitious of.

This I choose to do. If there is a price, this I choose to pay. If it is my death, then I choose to die. Where this takes me, there I choose to go. I choose. This I choose to do.

The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.

And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, the strange and wonderful becomes a memory and a memory becomes a dream. Tomorrow it's gone.

Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side!

That's Third Thoughts for you. When a huge rock is going to land on your head, they're the thoughts that think: Is that an igneous rock, such as granite, or is it sandstone?

Yes, she'd made a mistake... but she wasn't going to be bullied. You couldn't let boys go around raining on your lava and ogling other people's watercolors.

Living this long's not as wonderful as people think. I mean, you get the same amount of youth as everyone else, but a great big extra helping of being very old and deaf and creaky.

You couldn't escape the pointy hat, though. There was nothing magical about a pointy hat except that it said that the woman underneath it was a witch. People paid attention to a pointy hat.

Gossiping's part of witchcraft, ' said Tiffany. 'They're checking to see if they've gone batty yet.

She let the fear burn inside her like fuel, making her voice even stronger.

You can truly live if you can see yourself centuries after you have died. Just imagine it. What will people remember about you, how will your grave look like? How will your children live, etc.

You’ve missed a lot of things. But mostly I think you’ve missed several opportunities to leave. Let me assist you to the door so that you won’t miss this next one.

Religious liberty is about freedom of action in matters of religion generally, and the scope of that liberty is directly correlated to the civil restraints placed upon religious practice.

A lot of times people say, 'As soon as you relax you'll have a kid.'

I don't like to see all my energies, all of my youth, wasted in fur coats and radios and slipcovers.

I still think of myself as punk, because the way I became empowered to play music is entirely due to punk bands.

The more specific you are, the more universal you are.

The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve

The amateur salesman sells products; the professional sells solutions to needs and problems.