I taught myself more in the library than school taught me.

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.

A persons limitations are only measured by their drive to succeed

Loss is only temporary when you believe in God!

It is my expectation that if I call 911 for the police that I will be blatantly harassed.

If I made it it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.

The words of truth are simple.

Not all things worth counting are countable and not all things that count are worth counting.

The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.

The purpose of schools should not be to prepare students for more school. We should be seeking to have fully engaged students now

I really do want to act, I love acting, and I want to do it in the long run.

It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.