I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places.

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.

you don't have to be great to get started but you have to to get started to be great

The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror!

At 23 years old, I came into politics as a dragon slayer. At 63 years old, I'm going out as a dragon.

Twitter is a lot like crystal meth, because it's really fun to do and Oprah's on it.

I enjoy reality as much as the next man. It's just that in my case, fortunately, reality includes a good stiff belt every now and then.

What we really yearn for as human beings is to be visible.

It doesn't matter who you are, football's a business. At some stage you're going to have to leave a football club, that's just normal.

I want every character be an outsider in some way.

When grace changes the heart, submission out of fear changes to submission out of love, and true humility is born.

Oft in my way have I stood still, though but a casual passenger, so much I felt the awfulness of life.