In the end the problem isn't that you have the wrong sort of government for the People, but that you have the wrong sort of People.

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.

God keeps giving Himself as long as we bring that into which He can pour Himself. And when we stop bringing, He stops giving.

Invalidating laws has absolutely nothing to do with judicial activism. It depends on whether the law is unconstitutional or not. That's really the key point.

Quotes are for dumb people who can't think of something intelligent to say on their own.

We are fighting Germany, Austria and drink, and as far as I can see, the greatest of these three deadly foes is drink.

When we wake up in the morning and we make decisions, these decisions come from the night, the night of eternity, our other side.

Introverts listen better, they assess risks more carefully, they can be wiser managers. It's not for nothing that the Silicon Valley billionaires are so often the retiring types.

Without a sincere and diligent effort in every area of obedience, there will be no sucessful mortification of any one besetting sin.

I need to be looking at what's important in North Carolina, and you better believe that's what I will do.

I think Michael O'Donoghue felt he'd said what he wanted to say. In fact, nobody thought we could spin it out long enough to make a book.

Such happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.