People needed to believe in gods, if only because it was so hard to believe in people.

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.

How many millions there are who don't want to go to Hell, but they don't want to get off the road to Hell.

You use your brain much as you would use a radio crystal

Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.

There can be no compromise on moral principles.

I have a picture I keep in my wallet of my father's corpse... I keep that picture in my wallet to show people who show me baby pictures.

The essential task of Canadian statesmanship is to discover the terms on which as many as possible of the significant interest groups of our country can be induced to work together in common policy.

I'd like to be remembered as a premier singer of songs, not just a popular act of a given period.

Keep what you have got; the known evil is best. [Lat., Habeas ut nactus; nota mala res optima est.]

People don't take you seriously if you scream, if you raise your voice, especially when you're a 19-year-old girl.

Being human is a lot more difficult than being on tour.