People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.

Progress just means bad things happen faster.

Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.

Humanity's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there.

Where's the pleasure in bein' the winner if the loser ain't alive to know they've lost?

Cats gravitate to kitchens like rocks gravitate to gravity.

A mirror can contain the reflection of the whole universe, a whole skyful of stars in a piece of silvered glass no thicker than a breath.

Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because—what with trolls and dwarfs and so on—speciesism was more interesting. Black and white lived in perfect harmony and ganged up on green.

The invisible people knew that happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in.

Blessings be on this house, " Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a witch. It concentrated people's minds on what other things might be on this house.

You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage.

Plus je vois le homes, plus j’admire les chiens” (The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs).

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Art must always remain earnest... Art must be serious, no sarcasm, comedy. One does not laugh at a loved one.

No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.

Like so much of President Obama's decisions over the past six years, this is another photo-op with a compliant press that does not matter and will do little.

I don't feel I'm making a conscious effort to go more commercial.

I've got two Rolexes that I'm very proud of - a gold Presidential that was a gift and a white gold one I gifted myself. I'm trying to step my game up and get a few more of those.

I wish his music came out of the closet and admit that it sucks.

I can't go any place without going to museums. It's very important for me.