Belief was never mentioned at home, but right actions were taught by daily example.

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.

Never give up on your dreams, without them life is just an existence.

The Philippines are ours forever. They are not capable of self-government. How could they be? They are not a self-governing race.

If you put two brigades on the ground right now with U.S. forces, they would push ISIS back into Syria in a heartbeat.

No music is going to stop the war. What's going to stop the war is a large amount of body bags, or a large amount of people in the streets, protesting it before it starts.

What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the ambitions, the fear, and the enraptured and terrified folly of mankind?

And one thing we want during this war on terror is for people to feel like their life's moving on, that they're able to make a living and send their kids to college and put more money on the table.

How does light enter a house? If the windows are open. How does light enter a human? If the door of love is open.

I just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language better than me.

What's important is not the accolades and memories of success but the way you respond when opportunities are denied.

A sound philosophy of life, I think, may be the most valuable asset for a psychiatrist to have when he is treating a patient.