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.

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.

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

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.

No matter how you define success, you will need to be resilient, empowered, authentic, and limber to get there.

They say opposites attract. Nobody ever said opposites live happily ever after.

Certainly this is a duty not a sin. "Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness."

Fashion has to be about what is.

Women who are too easy to attract are perceived as less desirable.

A great opportunity is often hard to be explained clearly; things that can be explained clearly are often not the best opportunities.

We were just looking at ideas of each other.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money. Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

I don’t know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I am at the time. I find it difficult to be happy in the present.