Raise the stakes! Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you.

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 degree of your desire determines your dedication.

You've always been what you are. That's not new. What you'll get used to is knowing it.

People do change. And no matter how close we once were, and how much we opened up to each other, maybe neither of us know anything substantial about the other.

Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

I don’t think that [the war in Iraq] damaged our reputation around the world.

Some things get better with age. And then there's Madonna.

I like the way the old Toyotas look.

As much as I love food, I'd have to save my girls!

The need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth. For suffering is objectivity that weighs upon the subject