The jurisdiction of a good man extends to the end of the world.

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.

But instead of spending our lives running towards our dreams, we are often running away from a fear of failure or a fear of criticism.

War is organized murder and nothing else

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity When I give I give myself.

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.

If we're all going to hell in a handbasket, we might as well make it a party on the way down

All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue.

W. Bush, this man is a war criminal, and we will see that he is brought to trial.

The most terrible of all my battles was the one before Moscow. The French showed themselves to be worthy of victory, but the Russians showed themselves worthy of being invincible.

I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death.

Disempowerment - whether defined in terms of a lack of self-confidence , apathy, fear, or an inability to take charge of one's own life - is perhaps the most unrecognised problem in Africa today.