William: "I'm sure we can all pull together, sir."Vetinari: "Oh, I do hope not. Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions.

The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret. [Fred. Free.]

A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.

DO NOT PUT ALL YOUR TRUST IN ROOT VEGETABLES. WHAT THINGS SEEM TO BE MAY NOT BE WHAT THEY ARE.-Death

. . . Mrs. Arcanum considered foreign parts only marginally less unspeakable than private parts. . .

The public thinks big, sensible, measured thoughts while people run around doing silly things

How dare a person tell a woman, how to dress, how to talk, how to behave! Any being who does that, is no human.

The mind judges in order to love. The heart just loves unconditionally.

Those who waste bread will be condemned to as many years in purgatory as the number of crumbs wasted and will have to pick those crumbs up, one by one, with their eyelids.

I've served in 25 nations. I've seen where people don't trust their government. We're there. In the military, the last option is to send in the SEALs.

My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses.

You say you're going to be the pope, become the pope.

It is a big adjustment but I've always loved that old saying of Jack Nicklaus: 'I retired from golf to go to work.' That sums it up for me.

I'm just a simple kid from Brooklyn who landed into the most enchanted lifestyle imaginable.

There's this thing called freebasing. It's not free, it costs you your home. It should be called 'homebasing'.

When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.