She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to 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.

Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.

Every lover is a soldier.

The best Paris I know now is in my head.

In speaking of natural rights, therefore, it is essential to remember that these alleged rights have no political force whatsoever, unless recognized and enforced by the state.

No community dictates to any individual how to live their lives. You can criticize and you can push but people freely choose.

Often we don't change because we're afraid of what might happen. We cling to what we recognize, even if we are steeped in suffering.

I'm lucky that I have good genetics. Like you said, it just gets better as I get older.

Listen in silence because if your heart is full of other things you cannot hear the voice of God

Being queen is overrated.

Those who give up on their dreams shouldn't influence you to give up on yours.