True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.

Live each day as if your life had just begun.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

Ankh-Morpork is a godless city--''I thought it had more than three hundred places of worship?' said Maladict. city', he recovered.

Marriages are like pianos. They go in and out of tune.

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Never judge a woman by her age.

I have won elections and I have lost elections.

If I take pictures at a party, I never get bored.

Consider calling it a challenge rather than calling it a crisis.

Our punning minds rejoin what logic has separated.

As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make friends with the quietness of our sensations.

A person can't help their birth.