If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.

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.

Respect both what you need to know and what you don't need to know. Respect mystery, for mystery is still needed to run the universe.

Who ever achieved greatness by playing it safe!

I'd shift disciplines, whether it was musical instruments or sports or whatever, and it's the same with that.

We must now view our problems as opportunities - historic opportunities to change the failed systems of the past and do what's right for our future.

It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.

The responsible person seeks to make his whole life a response to the question and call of God.

Each of my book arrives at a form and a style that is appropriate to the subject.

[A]lways keep a-hold of Nurse For fear of finding something worse

Our words set the direction for our lives.

What distinguishes success from failures is that the successes constantly thirst for new ideas and knowledge.