It’s still magic even if you know how it’s done.

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.

About this business of being a gentleman: I paid so heavily for the fourteen years of my gentleman’s education that I feel entitled, now and then, to get some sort of return.

The moment a person feels he has nothing left to learn is the moment life prepares to hit him hard enough to correct such ignorance.

If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you.

I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.

Rather than be less Car'd not to be at all.

Celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.

A crown, a throne could not be based on the not too very solid foundation of blood.

The commonality in the human experience is the same. We have the same sorrows, and the same triumphs. Joy is joy is joy.

I don't want little girls to have the same ambitions as me. But I want them to know that it's okay to be ambitious.

i happen to enjoy categorization.