YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES."So we can believe the big ones?"YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

The Auditors fluttered anxiously. And, as always happens in their species when something goes radically wrong and needs fixing instantly, they settled down to try to work how who was to blame.

There is always time for another last minute

OH, THERE HAS TO BE SOMETHING IN THE STOCKING THAT MAKES A NOISE, said Death. OTHERWISE, WHAT IS 4:30 A.M. FOR?

IT'S THE EXPRESSION ON THEIR LITTLE FACES I LIKE, said the Hogfather. "You mean sort of fear and awe and not knowing whether to laugh or cry or wet their pants?" YES. NOW THAT IS WHAT I CALL BELIEF.

Hello, inner child, I'm the inner babysitter!

HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INVENT BOREDOM. (Death)

Some things are fairly obvious when it's a seven-foot skeleton with a scythe telling you them

Dullness. Only humans could have invented it. What imaginations they had.

It's supposed to be jolly, with mistletoe and holly... and other things ending in olly.

Our self- development is all about cultivating the traits that we need to achieve our life purpose, success and to carry out our mission

How could the drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.

Some liars are so expert they deceive themselves.

I think we're all experiencing climate change. Experience is an effective teacher. It's sometimes a very harsh teacher. So we will be taught about climate change.

The album is a definite departure. I haven't written original material before, except for one song on my first album, but Elvis and I did six songs together on this one.

Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die.

It was time to move on, to dance with life again.

No public funding for abortion; it imposes a view.

You're never allowed to step on people to get ahead, but you can step over them if they're in your way.