It's hard to be famous and alive.

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.

The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.

As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.

"You are a boy," said Mr. Dombey, suddenly and almost fiercely; "and what you think of, or affect to think of, is of little consequence. You have done well, Sir. Don't undo it."

Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all

Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself.

Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.

Heaven forbids that man should know What change tomorrow's fate may bring.

Well, I can't leave Mags behind," says Finnick. "She's one of the few people who actually likes me.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

It is a good divine that follows his own instructions.