Inertia is comforting, and Americans will be extremely reluctant to make any change that might affect their high standard of living.

You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks.

Everything that happens to us is a reflection of who we are.

No matter what the situation, remind yourself "I have a choice."

Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.

The love you feel in life is a reflection of the love you feel in yourself.

Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.

Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day

Treat every moment as a gift, that is why it is called the present.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

Take responsibility for your last bad decision, and then let it go. Don't blame others or make excuses for yourself.

You’ll never change the world just by complaining.

Democracy is not a form of government. It is a tool of government. Case in point, Stalinist USSR was a "democracy".

Somehow, the story of the book enhanced the story within it.

I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu.

Among the expected glories of the Constitution, next to the abolition of Slavery was that of Rum.

In the dictionary of Cat, mercy is missing.

Democracy cannot sustain itself amid a high degree of violence.

I'll learn how to rest, though. I can still learn new tricks.

It was said that life was cheap in Ankh-Morpork. This was of course, completely wrong. Life was often very expensive; you could get death for free.

Someday it'll all be done by machine. Information machines.