You have to start out learning to believe the little lies. "So we can believe the big ones?" Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing.

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.

My kiss is my promise written in my heart with color of your love.

In the space between waves, we have the choice. To jump, to dive, to ride, to play. To face what's coming without running away.

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.

It is better to watch things then to do them.

He who comes first, eats first.

The will to truth is merely the longing for a stable world.

I mean this record does not sound like somebody's maiden voyage.

The greatest problem we face is the growing number of people living in poverty. The related sense of hopelessness has to be impacting on every part of environmental management.

Why should I downplay myself to make someone else more comfortable?

No behavior can be changed before it's acknowledged. And no addiction is beyond the reach of Love.