I think," he said, "I think, if you want thousands, you have to fight for one.

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.

Keep your hope in the Lord.

Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.

I look back to a happy childhood.

There is nothing we cannot live down, and rise above, and overcome.

I realize now that the reality of things is not something you convey to people but something you make.

Always make the best of the best, and never make bad worse.

Music, of almost any kind, always made sense to me.

I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.

I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of my life, already lived, and held like a legend, and understood.