Questions don't have to make sense, Vincent," said Miss Susan. "But answers do.

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.

Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.

Your imagination is a gift, unwrap it.

On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world.

You don't have to go through someone's pain to understand it. Empathy is enough.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

Thank God, He doesn't measure out grace in teaspoons.

The artist must paint as he would speak. I don’t want people to speculate what I mean, I want them to understand.

I have to be sure of myself - in a conditional way, always being open to the possibility that I'm wrong.

I am a believer, I am believer that we shape and create the life that we choose, and I believe that the tool that we have to do that, is our mind.

When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.