Building a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture.

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.

Is this the reality you wanted?

Life is sweet when you pay attention. When it doesn't seem sweet, put a sticker on your nose and do a funky dance.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it.

Gin a body meets a body Comin' through the rye. Gin a body kiss a body Need a body cry?

The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.

It is one of the great charms of books that they have to end.

Everyone is always looking for their beloved. Well, why can't you be your own beloved? Fall in love with yourself.

Pain will force even the truthful to speak falsely.

Perfect knowledge comes only when you see the world in yourself, just as he who awakes from the dream then knows he saw his dream-world with its suns and stars in himself.