Sometimes kindness doesn’t beget anything but misery. My mother didn’t have to learn that until she was in her thirties

A flicker of defiance flared very briefly in Rincewind's battered heart.

i drink caffeine" she said calmly "lot's of it gives you pep

We did phenomenally well with young people. I think we did well with working class people.

Much later I realized that a person's attitude to pain reveals more about his future than almost any other sign I know.

Now that Scotty has entered the realm of myth, everyone wants to own him. And maybe they should. Doesn't a myth belong to everyone?

The computer is here to stay, therefore it must be kept in its proper place as a tool and a slave, or we will become sorcerer's apprentices, with data data everywhere and not a thought to think.

Select candidates by integrity of character, not promises.

I own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world.

Every single soul is a poem, written on the back of God's hand

The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.