Anger was a weapon to be honed and treasured and used only at the moment yielding most premium.

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.

After all, if you can't trust governments, whom can you trust?

Measurements is your saving grace if you want to raise steam.

In Ankh-Morpork you can be whoever you want to be and sometimes people laugh and sometimes they clap, and mostly and beautifully, they don't really care.

What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

God is a verb, not a noun.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

In America the press rules the countrty; it rules its politics, its religion, its social practices.

... the man in the violent situation reveals those qualities least dispensable in his personality, those qualities which are all he will have to take into eternity with him.

Life is always fatal. No one gets out of it alive

Americans are a nation of immigrants.

Persistence overshadows even talent as the most valuable resource shaping the quality of life.

I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, OF needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace.

Forgiveness takes the burden of hate, guilt, and bitterness off your back and, with a lighter load, you can climb higher and faster, and be much happier in the process.