Carpe Jugulum," read Agnes aloud. "That's... well, Carpe Diem is 'Sieze the Day,' so this means-" "Go for the throat

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.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.

Never worry a bit in Life. Always be full of merriment.

Had she learned to feel again, only to have to feel this? Could any amount of love ever be worth the pain of losing it?

Hope is like a beautiful flower. If we take great care of our hope, life could be a beautiful garden.

Fire burned in her heart, and her wounded soul spread out, casting a shadow like wings across her country.

Not forgiving someone is like not pulling a thorn out of your foot just because you weren't the one to put it there.

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.

All beings, including each one of us, enemy and friend alike, exist in patterns of mutuality, interconnectedness, co-responsibility and ultimately in unity.

Of the Sun and the Moon, the Moon is plainly the more important, as it provides us with light when it is dark and most needed, whereas the Sun appears only in the daytime when it is light anyhow.

As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.