Progress just means bad things happen faster.

People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.

Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.

Humanity's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there.

Where's the pleasure in bein' the winner if the loser ain't alive to know they've lost?

Cats gravitate to kitchens like rocks gravitate to gravity.

A mirror can contain the reflection of the whole universe, a whole skyful of stars in a piece of silvered glass no thicker than a breath.

Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because—what with trolls and dwarfs and so on—speciesism was more interesting. Black and white lived in perfect harmony and ganged up on green.

The invisible people knew that happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in.

Blessings be on this house, " Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a witch. It concentrated people's minds on what other things might be on this house.

You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage.

Our goodness is our wealth and when we close our eyes to the tragedies of the hard lives, we start losing our wealth!

You're in the democratic West now, lady. Anybody's as good as anybody else as long as he's got the dough to prove it.

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.

No matter how rudely someone treats you, remain kind. Walking away at peace with yourself is worth it.

But I know now that you can't expect anything from anybody. If somebody loves you, it's because he wants to. And it's never because it's what he's supposed to do." —Pete Cassidy

People say New Yorkers can't get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and the radio; the other guy took the engine.

Never be sad for what is over, just be glad it was once yours. Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

People learn twenty-five percent from their teacher, twenty-five percent from listening to themselves, twenty-five percent from their friends, and twenty-five percent from time.

Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries.

If I wasn't an actress I would run a fortune 500 company.