Guilt was the grease in which the wheels of the authority turned.

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.

Family is not a career. It’s why you have a career. If you can’t be there for the big moments, then why are you doing it?

Consider how blessed you are to have the things you do in life.

At the dockside I was pleasantly surprised to find the North wasn't all hairy men in animal skins. There was also hairy women in animal skins.

Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

You are not required to start over, but you are required to keep going.

Every era that comes along has a superstar that emerges. Once we are out of the game, there will be a superstar who will emerge that everyone will notice.

Embrace a mistake and learn from it; don't regret them.

Where's the snow That fell the year that's fled--where's the snow?

I have seen one or two psychiatrists. They just sit and nod and doodle.