This time it had been magic. And it didn't stop being magic just because you found out how it was done.

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.

Look ahead and gaze on the sun!

that love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything.

I've been called the journeyman. It's really more by default than it is by design.

Knowing we will be with Christ forever far outweighs our burdens today! Keep your eyes on eternity!

I ended Affirmative Action by executive order and replaced it with a leadership model that created more opportunities for African-American and Hispanic students.

She whom smiles and tears make equally lovely may command all hearts.

The world of books: romantic, idle, shiftless world so beautiful, so cheap compared with living.

...to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.

So frequently we mistakenly believe that our children need more things, when in reality their silent pleadings are simply for more of our time.

I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like jazz. There is more improvisation.