Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous.

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.

My father's love was always strongMy mother's glamour lives on and on.Yet still inside I felt alone,  for reasones unknow to me.

Modern Boards set key tones in building fact-based business culture.

God is not sitting in heaven thinking about how to make you comfortable. Your comfort might actually be his least concern.

The typical Western diet is the number-one cause of premature death and the number-one cause of disability. In other words, a long and healthy life is largely a matter of choice.

Ultraconservatism is, to me, so illogical. Everywhere you go, conservatives want to cut, cut, cut, cut - cut money for powerless people. So, that's the biggest problem I have with them.

Nature meant woman to be her masterpiece.

It is harmful to compare yourself to others. Others will do that for you.

It was like a new world opened to me, the world of science, which I was at last permitted to know in all liberty.

There's just no great rock albums anymore. There's a lot of rock music out there, but it's very bland and disposable.

The strength of democratic societies relies on their capacity to know how to stand firm against extremism while respecting justice in the means used to fight terrorism.