Hat = wizard, wizard = hat. Everything else is frippery.

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.

Education is unfolding the wings of head and heart together. The job of a teacher is to push the students out of the nest to strengthen their wings.

By stepping outside your comfort zone to do something peculiar, you confirm that you can do more than you've done. Move out!

Choosing to accept yourself is a political act. An act of liberation.

The windows of my soul I throw Wide open to the sun.

I'll always stand by my Gypsy roots, and I'll always help out one of my own.

God, he whom everyone knows, by name.

I think that's the most important thing: that we create dialogue.

Most of the times, aggression will drive your enemy to do something that you are trying to prevent.

College is the only place where you can rebel by doing exactly what people in authority tell you to do.

I think a lot of my dreams have come true, and my next dream is to have a No. 1 selling album. A Grammy-award-winning album.