Terry Pratchett: Small Gods

You can die for your country or your people or your family, but for a god you should live fully and busily, every day of a long life.

Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.

Pets are always a great help in times of stress. And in times of starvation too, o'course.

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

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

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.

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.