Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.

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.

We do not just go through life blindly, we create our own journey.Your faith has sculpted you into the human being you have become.

A narrow hallway is all that separates rational from irrational, creativity from insanity, and intelligence from stupidity.

To insult someone we call him 'besti*l'. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

The whole world may begin to burn, but the National Socialist State and Idea will emerge from the conflagration like platinum.

The system is broken. The doctors and the nurses can't do everything. The patients need human attention; the patients themselves need to be addressed, rather than just their disease.

Excellence when concealed, differs but little from buried worthlessness. [Lat., Paullum sepultae distat inertiae Celata virtus.]

I like pressure. If I am not on the edge of failure, I'm not being sufficiently challenged.

I feel so grateful when I see a movie and there's a woman who looks somewhat like me. I'm like, 'Thank you, Samantha Morton!' You know, a woman who feels like a human being. That means so much to me.

I am not happy to play for Barcelona, but Barcelona should be happy that I play there.

I think a lot of women feel like they have to choose between making movies or making a family.