Ridcully was to management what King Herod was to the Bethlehem Playgroup Association.

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.

In the end, we live to serve the Saviour, who liberates us.

We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents.

Social Media Strategy isn't rocket science...but it might as well be if you don't know what you're doing.

Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.

President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.

Everything we design and make is an improvisation, a lash-up, something inept and provisional.

I am able to apply certain things to my craft that maybe other comedians don't, because I'm a devotee.

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

If you sit on, sleep on, stare at, or touch something for more than an hour a day, spend whatever it takes to get the best.

A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle.