What a man is is the basis owhat he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.

He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.

A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.

Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.

No man, with a man's heart in him gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. Happy is he who is brave enough to push on to another stage of the journey.

Charm is a glow within a woman which casts a most becoming light on others.

Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.

It is in the hard, hard rockpile labor of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing again comes in.

So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.

The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.

Even when the facts are available, most people seem to prefer the legend, and refuse to believe the truth when it in any way dislodges the myth.

Everyone gets obsessed with anti-aging but I'd rather look as good as I can at the age I am.

The world is a bad place. There are many wonderful people, but on the whole, humanity basically stinks.

There is an all powerful force or energy that creates all and draws all back into it. This is God. It is beyond intelligence, beyond analysis.

There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white.

When you're directing, it is a little easier, because when you're the actor, you have a to be a little more of a child. You have to get into the child's aspect of your personality a little bit more.

I brought a lot of images of pieces I got from my grandmother, pieces I collected over time and then we met with a designer and we tried to morph all my inspirations into one story.

A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.

When we were engaged in the problems of survival we had no time to have anything to do with culture.

There's no better way to dismantle a personality than to isolate it.

Vimes struggled to his feet, shook his head and set off after it. No thought was involved. It is the ancient instinct of terriers and policemen to chase anything that runs away.