Every step is a first step if it's a step in the right direction.

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.

The real friends are out there on you won, on your lost and on your special days. If they aren't there, take it like they aren't your friends, find other friends. This are fake!

...When I look back on my life's greatest traumas...I see that each one has something in common. No matter how life-shattering they felt at the time, there was an end to them.

Land of snap decisions, land of short attention spans, nothing is savored long enough to really understand.

If you know the dark, you find it has a light of its own to let you see.

Of course, I continue to play and to practice. I think I would do so if I lived for another hundred years.

There are only two kinds of businesses in this world: Businesses in crazy competition, and businesses that are one of a kind.

Nothing is stable in the realm of power, and even closest of friends can be transformed into the worst of enemies.

That a new humanity will be brought forth from this Christ consciousness in each person.

By going back to your own center you can always find the pure idea of right for every relationship.

Literature can be divided into two large families: the religious and the secular one. The first reveals the origin of stupidity, the second follows its evolution.