Few things are hidden from a quiet child with good eyesight.

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.

Not always what you expect is what you wanted

Freedom is the brevity to resist detrimental act.

Either write something worth reading, or do something worth writing.

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.

To create great work, here's how you must spend your time: 1% Inspiration 9% Perspiration 90% Justification

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Such schemes take money from people who can least afford to spend it to support an unneeded bureaucracy that eats money people thought they were providing for education.

I don't believe in perfection. I don't think it exists.

We will be relentless in our pursuit for perfection. We won't ever be perfect - but in the process we will achieve greatness.