It is said that the Devil has all the best tunes. This is broadly true. But Heaven has the best choreographers

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.

It's not wise to seek the revenge and forget to love.

The sky was low and broody, but from here, near the treeline, you could see the forest rolling down into the valley, the lake tucked away like a pocket mirror.

The girl laughed again. The joy of a caged bird was in her voice.

Don’t remove the ladder once you done with it. Leave it for others to climb too

The Church will never reach her full redemptive potential until men and women with the leadership gift step up and lead.

It's important for me to live my life honestly.

If you want to serve the age, betray it.

Education is only the most fully conscious of the channels whereby each generation influences the next.

Stache’s attack was perfectly timed, thanks to his veteran-pirate grasp tactics—and a big piece if luck.

There is no more honorable thing any of us can do with our lives than to work to put part of the world off-limits to the activities of human beings.