Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.

Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.

Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.

People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.

Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.

Depression/The assassin inside me

True love is like ghosts which many believe in, but few have seen.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

Live a little. Laugh a little. Love a little. Happiness will find you in a big way.

Samadhi is perfect absorption to the point where there is no sense of being absorbed, not the consciousness of knowing that you are having an experience.

When you make many films with the same actors you can develop a special understanding with them. I love working with people I know and that I trust.

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

There's nothing like a great piece of theater - a great performance in a great piece of theater.

For honesty coupled to beauty, is to have honey a sauce to sugar.