What your soldier wants - really, really wants - is no-one shooting back at him.

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.

Poor people! They build tunnels to reach the light.

Let us be brave in the face of adversity.

Wonder implies the desire to learn.

We push time from us, and we wish him back; * * * * * * Life we think long and short; death seek and shun.

The human baby, the human being, is a mosaic of animal and angel.

I realized that it was great to have a job, but it didn't have anything remotely to do with what I was striving for, so why was I doing it?

If there was one life skill everyone on the planet needed, it was the ability to think with critical objectivity

I truly believe that God provides.

I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old.

What's not fair is having the responsibility of a supervisor but not the title or the pay.