Let us consider under what disadvantages Science has hitherto labored before we pronounce thus confidently on her progress.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.

The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.

Some pains are physical, and some pains are mental, but the one that's both is dental.

Metaforen är ett av tankens väsentligaste verktyg. Den belyser vad som annars skulle ligga helt i mörker. Men denna belysning blir ibland så klar att den bländar istället för avslöjar.

I was cranked to a fifth gear, and everything I did, I did on a deadline.

Don’t worry about paying me. Stay alive, child. You must save yourself. And, whatever you do, don’t forget who you are

One of the ironies of human nature is that it often has a way of rejecting the best and accepting the worst.

Real revolutionaries adorn themselves on the inside, not on the surface.

Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit.

Writing is not the lottery. New writers have to be realistic about what it takes to get published. But there is one similarity to the lottery: You have to play to win.

I don't want to wait more than a year and a half or two years between books.

"There's a door," he whispered. "Where does it go?" "It stays where it is, I think," said Rincewind.