Their families cordially detested one another.

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.

Sharing is caringYou will share with those Whom you care

It is perhaps rather fine, after all, being dead. Highly underrated in the modern western world.

The life of hero is the tale of a person overcoming personal hardship and obstacles while striving to achieve an exultant victory that voices repressed citizens’ ecstatic thoughts and dreams.

The greatest activity of which man is capable: Opening up yet another fragment of the frontier of beauty.

I think it's a universal truth that most chefs I know are happiest eating simple, unadorned good things.

I think when it comes to Botox and surgery, actresses should do it or not do it, but be honest about their choices.

The right to religious freedom has its foundation, not in the church or society or the state, but in the very dignity of the human person.

It had been an enormous, extraordinary, outrageous adventure. And it was deadly.

My mum's from Yorkshire and my parents aren't snotty or posh - they're very hard workers, both of them.

Faith in Christ makes one a regenerated believer; obedience to the Holy Spirit makes him a spiritual believer.