Don't you *ever* let go?" "I haven't yet." "Why?" "I suppose... because in this world, after everyone panics, there's always got to be someone to tip the wee out of the shoe.

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 can only love one another deeply from the heart, for there is home of sacredness.

Remember, faith is the harbinger of chaos.

The process of attentive listening makes the other person feel important, valued, and heard. For Nick, listening was, and still is, love. I've never forgotten that precious moment—and the lesson!

I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.

A lie is like a snowball: the further you roll it the bigger it becomes.

I don't think the audience always listens to the critics. That's been proven time and time again.

People have enough ideas. The real question is "Which ideas are you going to use?".

Humor is, by its nature, more truthful than factual.

The most important resources you will ever have are your mind and your mind-set. You must protect them at all costs.

Type is saying things to us all the time. Typefaces express a mood, an atmosphere. They give words a certain coloring.