Go anywhere you wish, talk to everyone. Ask any questions; you will be given answers. When you want to learn, you will be taught. Use the library. Open any book.

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 first time you succeed it is chance

An elephant does not need to pick a fight to let the whole jungle know of its strength.

This thing in your chest, slightly tilted towards the left, could be fidgety at times. Make sure you set it right.

Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies! gone down the American river! Dreams! adorations! illumnations! religions! the whole boatload of sensitive bullshit!

If you believe you can change - if you make it a habit - the change becomes real.

Ladies, please remember that every single picture you see in a magazine is airbrushed...we do not look like that. Love yourself!

I guess not being able to hear just made me adventurous and daring. And in most cases, that didn't make my parents very happy with me.

Well, it's not really the right word, but freedom is kind of a hobby with me, and I have disposable income that I'll spend to find out how to get people more of it.

Transforma as tuas feridas em sabedoria!

Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief.