Things have no power that humans don't put there.

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.

Desire for power is a kind of greed indulged by the unfulfilled

Life is a dream made real through the power of our imaginations.

If this is Heaven, I am in big trouble.

you only know you can do something if you keep on doing it

I learned early on to never walk while I was on the ball field. I ran everywhere I went.

I mean rappin' to me is easy, it's something you can do over a week.

Expecting to be wrong about most things most of the time brings, finally, the kind of humility that leads to peace. I think.

You know, Taylor Lautner, with a body like that, he should be taking his shirt off. For me, it's not so essential.

I have often wondered whether a person is justified in neglecting his own family to fight for opportunities for others.

I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me.