No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled. "Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?""What?""Oh, you'd like something simpler?

Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it.

We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.

Truth! Freedom! Justice! And a hard-boiled egg!

In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this?

I get it, ' said the prisoner. 'Good Cop, Bad Cop, eh?'If you like.' said Vimes. 'But we're a bit short staffed here, so if I give you a cigarette would you mind kicking yourself in the teeth?

People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but expect dinner to turn up within the hour.

Mums are mums, lance-constable. They don't like to see men managing by themselves, in case that sort of thing catches on.

You may not always change your situation but you can always change your perception. For better or worse, it will change the situation.

It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks.

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

I want something from Daddy that he is not able to give me. ... It is only that I long for Daddy's real love: not only as his child, but for me - Anne, myself.

There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards.

Anger is a violent emotion, vindictive, and as dangerous to he who is driven by it as to anyone on whom it is turned.

One of the most beneficial things I've ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.

Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.

Powdered donuts," Tyson said earnestly. "I will look for powdered donuts in the wilderness." He headed outside and started calling, "Here, donuts!

To be a great leader, first become a great person.