Nanny Ogg could see the future in the froth on a beer mug. It invariably showed that she was going to enjoy a refreshing drink which she almost certainly was not going to pay for.

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.

The "question" is the original open-source code.

The evolution of the universe is both mirrored by and incumbent upon your own.

Yoga, like meditation, offers a method for coming together after you've come apart.

Every ear is tickled with the sweet music of applause.

Christian hope does not promise successful days to the rich and the strong, but resurrection and life to those who must exist in the shadows of death. Success is no name of God. Righteousness is.

Therefore we Christians, in turn, are obliged not to tolerate their wanton and conscious blasphemy.

It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.

The questions are always more important than the answers.

You don't want to look back at your years with regrets. Regrets have no place in your memory jar.

Those who build walls are their own prisoners.