They can ta'k our lives but they can never ta'k our freedom!' Now there's a battle cry not designed by a clear thinker

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.

The most critical time in any battle is not when I’m fatigued, it’s when I no longer care.

I feel like this is a horror story. That's how scared I am right now."Don't be scared.""That doesn't help.

Speak with your words and your message can be distorted... Speak with your actions and you'll leave no doubt.

Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.

The money cost of the reservoir plan literally fades into insignificance when it is compared with the financial burden which the great depression imposed on the nation.

I have retired but only in body. Spiritually, I still feel able.

Vision is knowing who you are, where you're going, and what will guide your journey.

I'm a humanist. I'm an observer. I have a very scientific mind. I believe metaphysics and science absolutely blended are more the truth for me. It doesn't work just believing in what somebody says.

A lot of the world looks to the United States, whether we like it or not.

Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.