You were the kind of kid who couldn't see the difference between throwing rocks at a cat and setting it on fire.

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.

If we pray, we shall have peace,

Nothing novel or interesting happens unless it is on the border between order and chaos.

I have an extensive library - every birthday when I was a kid my parents would ask what movie or book I wanted, so I have built up a big collection over the years.

I like to say that Bobby Fischer was the greatest player ever. But what made Fischer a genius was his ability to blend an American freshness and pragmatism with Russian ideas about strategy

This week Apple stores are holding free computer programming classes for children. Or as that's called in China, a job fair.

A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.

What we don't listen to, is what I am continually telling people in which nobody really, to get down to the nitty gritty believes, is that there is a piece of Divinity in us.

It is true that I must run a great risk; no gallant action was ever accomplished without danger.

When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.

Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.