History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it

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.

He's fat and a clown, Bill, a fat clown for all to see.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.

The people are hungry for the bread of life. Do not offer them a stone.

Mindfulness is when you are engaged in activities but the mind is set into the meditative state all the time. Meditation is to be aware of many different levels. It's not just the absence of thought.

Youth has a right to go astray now and then Feeling themselves oppressed by the benevolence.

To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form.

On the day a country decides not to invest a cent in innovation, discovery or exploration, that country decides to be a tributary to others.

Now, if you don’t mind, I’m going to sit over here with my throbbing feet and bleed in silence until we get to our destination. (Syn)

I wanted to create a place where parents can come and find products that are safe for their children, as well as good for the planet.

When I got my statement in January, I was worth $2.2 billion. Then I got another statement in August that said I was worth $3.2 billion. So I figure it's only nine months' earnings, who cares?