In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

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 sure path to failure is the readiness to blame everyone else for your misfortune.

Strike from mankind the principle of faith and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep.

I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process.

It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment.

Gerry Ford is easy to spot on the course. He drives the cart with the red cross painted on top.

At the end of all things, the blessed will say, 'We never lived anywhere but in heaven.'

Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.

In conclusion, if you want to unravel the multitude of secrets of chess then don't begrudge the time.

The world itself is too small for the covetous.

It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.