Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes.

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.

Forgiving himself came easy to him. His, he'd come to realize, was a forgiving nature.

We forgive the crimes of individuals, but not their participation in a collective crime.

No daughter and mother ever live apart, no matter what the distance between them.

If quitting smoking seems hard right now, it is exactly what you should start doing

The boldness of endurance is the underline to almost every success.

Once we decide we have to do something, we can go miles ahead.

Necessity is often the mother of balls

Yeah, I'm running for the White House again. Well, it's not a run, really; it's sort of a brisk walk.

It is not really work if you are having fun.

I don't think about how many people are watching me. I'm just happy to play baseball for myself.