You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become?

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.

It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive.

I have always been first and foremost a cinephile, so making references to other films is second nature to me.

And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.

I was always acting. I was doing after-school plays and stuff like that.

Some of my favorite places I have been in my life exist only in dreams.

My acting ability would have sent me back to the post office. It was my singing that got me jobs. Ironically, now, people think of me as an actor and don't know me much as a singer.

I never look back, I look forward.

The only thing that a man may do that is new, is to write himself on human hearts.

The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.

The more you are grateful for what you have the more you will have to be grateful for