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.

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.

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.

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.

Freedom is taken for granted by the free and longed for by those who never had it. But for those who have lost it, the loss burns like the hottest flame.

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares she never gives them. In some form or other we pay for her favors or we go empty away.

Information obtained under dubious circumstances cannot play a role in legal proceedings in a constitutional state. But everything that's available must be taken into account in threat prevention.

He stuck a camera down my throat....ewwww, I gagged!!! It was kinda funny though.....he said I have "Acute Laryngitis".

There are different ways to raise capital that were not available when I was growing my business.

Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and perseverance.

Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.

Travel is an attitude, a state of mind. It is not residence, it is motion.

I encourage everyone out there to get involved.

I am not the worst singer.