Where's the pleasure in bein' the winner if the loser ain't alive to know they've lost?

People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.

Progress just means bad things happen faster.

Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.

Humanity's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there.

Cats gravitate to kitchens like rocks gravitate to gravity.

A mirror can contain the reflection of the whole universe, a whole skyful of stars in a piece of silvered glass no thicker than a breath.

Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because—what with trolls and dwarfs and so on—speciesism was more interesting. Black and white lived in perfect harmony and ganged up on green.

The invisible people knew that happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in.

Blessings be on this house, " Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a witch. It concentrated people's minds on what other things might be on this house.

You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage.

One with true creativity can erase their one past, and replace it with an infinite number of pasts, creating new possibilities for the future.

It was pretty cool to have someone around here who didn't like the same things as everybody else.

I feel beautiful when I'm at peace with myself. When I'm serene, when I'm a good person, when I've been considerate of others.

NGOs are dangerous. They do what the missionaries used to do in Colonial times. They are Trojan Horses. The worse the situation, the more the NGOs.

I'll close my eyes, so I won't see, all of the love that you don't feel for me.

Certainly, Doctor. Let's talk about your chair. Victorian?

Monologue is the most honest way to represent human beings.

Where there's love there's no limit; where there's a limit, there's no love.

In traditional societies, nature was seen as one’s wife, but the modern West turned it into a prostitute.

My life is God's life in me for Him to do with what He wants.