A whole world is taken to the grave with the dead person; each one of us is unique and unrepeatable.

You judge a society by the decency of living of the weakest

Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.

Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff.

Questioning the ostensibly unquestionable premises of our way of life is arguably the most urgent of services we owe our fellow humans and ourselves.

For one to be free there must be at least two.

You are a stranger, I am a stranger, we all remain strangers, and nevertheless we can like or even love each other.

The rationality of the ruled is always the weapon of the rulers.

We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.

The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.

The value of other people is that they have something unique to offer.

Be captivated by your hearts desire, not distracted by your minds fear.

Using social media to hurt and destroy is callous, acted out by cowards hiding behind computers. My advice is to ignore negativity. Focus on the love around.

The next darwin is more likely to be a data wonk than a naturalist wandering through an exotic landscape.

The friend that I based Heffer on was adopted, and it all played into his total personality.

Going to radio with a rap record prior to going to the consumer is like having no foreplay with your girlfriend.

It's because you're like that that you're still a virgin, you know.

More Christians died for their faith at the hands of fellow Christians than had died before in all the persecutions.

But I'd long ago learned not to be picky in farewells. They weren't guaranteed or promised. You were lucky, more than blessed, if you got a good-bye at all.

My name is immaterial,' she said. That's a pretty name,' said Rincewind.

Men are disposed to live honestly, if the means of doing so are open to them.