You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Wisdom comes from the internalization and reflection of experience.

And the people of Ankh-Morpork are so thirsty for novelty that the whole city is, you might say, hurrying the future along for the sheer joy of watching its progress.

God gave me the stubbornness of a mule and a fairly keen scent.

Live for yourself. Love those around you - but realise they have their own agendas.

Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer.

I do think there will be more Japanese companies expanding out of Japan, and there will be more cross-border flow from Japan.

I've gone through most of my life not believing anything. Either I know or I don't know, or I think.

Not only does investing in your infrastructure provide very good construction jobs, at the end of the project, you have something.

I'd better make hay while the sun shines.