Terry Pratchett

There`s always someone who collects knowledge, not because of a love of the stuff but in the same way that a magpie collects glitter or a caddis fly collects little bits of twigs and rock.

Hate is just love with its back turned.

It's vital to remember who you really are. It's very important. It isn't a good idea to rely on other people or things to do it for you, you see. They always get it wrong.

Everyone has gods. You just don't think they're gods.

Anything anyone is still trying to explain to you after two minutes is probably important and anything they give up after a mere minute or so is almost certainly something they shouldn't have been bothering you with in the first place.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

The truth isn't easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap, and much more difficult to find...

Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more.

It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done. A person ignorant of the possibility of failure can be a halfbrick in the path of the bicycle of history.

People think that professional soldiers think a lot about fighting, but serious professional soldiers think a lot more about food and a warm place to sleep, because these are two things that are generally hard to get, whereas fighting tends to turn up all the time.

Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.

Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

Give anyone a lever long enough and they can change the world. It's unreliable levers that are the problem.

You need to be a human being to be really stupid.

Time is like a drug. Too much of it kills you.