"It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever" he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?"

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.

I can forgive almost any crime if a great story is left in its wake.

Talent is a long patience.

New management at Nine has launched a concerted attack on its cost base in order to restore margins through eliminating waste, improving efficiency and lowering programming costs.

Through Love and through Beauty, we achieve immortality.

You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.

Even from my sick bed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel something is going wrong, I will get up.

There's nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final.

The most consistent gift and burden of motherhood is advice.

Doing work you love is the dizzying path of saying yes to yourself and yes to a brilliant, hidden self you do not yet know.