The harder I work, the luckier I become.

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.

Reality works in this fashion: what you hold in your mind – the self-image, hopes and expectations, world view, beliefs, fears, feelings and all else – becomes realized in your life, continuously.

Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to really living.

Whatever claim you use to gain attention, the advertisement should tell a story reasonably complete.

I have to ask myself, Am I content with calling myself a feminist? Yes, because I speak out.

Equality has always been extant but some of us just didn't know it.

It is terrible to have to ask for anything ever. We wish we were something that needed nothing, like paint. But even paint needs repainting.

At the critical juncture in all human relationships, there is only one question: What would love do now?

Nationality was the most pernicious, depersonalizing, homogenizing label that could ever be attached to the human individual.

The problem with requiring people to be loud and angry to get things done is that you're now surrounded by people who are loud and angry.

People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.