Open your eyes and then open your eyes again.

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 don’t think there’s anything wrong with telling the truth. I know it isn’t fashionable.

We all have the potential to do terrible things. But we also have the potential to overcome our mistakes.

Buddy eyed me closely. His eyes were filigreed with red. I watched as he went through one of those instantaneous mood swings that only drunks and menstruating women can manage.

You are mine. I recognize you. We twist our souls around each other's miseries. It is that which makes us family.

Whatever the mind is taught to expect, that it will build, produce, and bring forth for you.

People are dying in vain because America isn't holding their end of the bargain up, as far as giving freedom and justice, liberty to everybody. That's something that's not happening.

I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different.

If you're turned away from one road, there's always another--filled with risk but also adventure. Roads less taken are always the most rewarding ones.

Don't belong to anything. Don't belong to anyone. Just Be. Feel your Being first and foremost, and don't compare or compete. Just Be your Being.

I think any young person who is going into the same field as their parent whose parent has been very successful, it's complicated.And it was complicated for me.