Most modern fantasy just rearranges the furniture in Tolkien's attic.

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.

We are more than our traumaWe are not our diagnosisWe are more than the worst thingsthat have ever happened to us

It is extraordinary how the human mind sees what it anticipates and is blind to anything that could not be dreamed of.

Don't say, "the sky is my limit", say, "I progress ad infinitum.

The more we are concerned for the well being of others, the closer we will feel to each other.

I went to a Katy Perry concert, and I experienced pure bliss for the first time in my life.

To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

The great scandal of American life is that we pay for German levels of government without enjoying the related benefits.

The root of suffering is resisting the certainty that no matter what the circumstances, uncertainty is all we truly have.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

When I was back in Cuba, who could have imagined I would be invited to the White House!