You're allowed to grant people into the darkness, but you must allow them to come out again.

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.

What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.

To believe Christianity stands in opposition to slavery is at best to think anachronistically and at worst to not understand Christianity.

By love, harmony and beauty you must turn the whole of life into a single vision of divine glory.

At last you kissed me, I could die in waves again, and one good lick of quicksand took.

We cannot lead anyone farther than we have been ourselves.

We forgive when we give up attachment to our wounds.

Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.

You can't teach biology with a bottle containing dead animals and organisms.

I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.

Not everyone agrees on music. Some people like rap, some like country - it's all an opinion. F the critics.