An ancient proverb summed it up when a wizard is tired of looking for broken glass in his dinner, it ran, he is tired of life.

There's a saying that all roads lead to Ankh-Morpork. And it's wrong. All roads lead away from Ankh-Morpork, but sometimes people just walk along them the wrong way.

The worst thing you can do is nothing.

There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.

Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Meters, the Mile, the Marathon -- he'd run them all.

Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four.

Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant ‘idiot.

...and the funny thing was that people who weren't entirely certain they were right always argued much louder than other people, as if the main person they were trying to convince were themselves.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.

You never knew about people, like you never knew how deep a pond was because all you saw was the top.

Philanthropy should be voluntary.

Religion is like an ice cold whiskey on a hot day.

Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams.

I like when things are hard; I'm very competitive. If something seems difficult or impossible, it interests me.

The only way to know something absolutely is to experience it for yourself; anything less is theory, speculation, and belief. .

At the end of the day, I stand by who I am. I'm a good person.

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.

...as I apprehend the Buddhist doctrine of karma, I agree in principle with that.