If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship.

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.

One of the most powerful lessons silence teaches us is to ponder

Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom.

As a human being, possessing education, talent, and recourses obligates you to help others less fortunate.

When people's emotions are involved they don't want to listen.

I kind of wonder if creativity is all morphing into one big thing that's not even art, but something universal and bigger.

Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.

If you are the greatest, why would you go around talking about it?

Keeping busy: This is a problem that you're glad to have.

Considering what Americans have been confronted with in the last ten years, domestically and internationally, it's clear that we need emotional outlets; we have to have some peace from our problems

She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.