In the world I live in, 'not worse' is nearly as good as 'better'.

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.

To become a better you, remember to be grateful to people who have contributed to making you who you are today.

I can't prove it yet know it when I seem it.

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

I don't go for people who lead full and satisfying lives.

There's no reward in life without risk.

I think the first important thing is that usually most textbooks are not written by their authors. And so by author I mean the people who did not write them; so it's a new definition of "author."

Happy the society whose deepest divisions are ones of style.

I was as bad as it gets. What I wrote in the book, I was probably worse than that. I couldn't really explain how bad it was.

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.

When your intentions are very pure and clear, nature brings support to you.