"Virtue has its own reward, but no box office."

"It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up."

"People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant."

"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through temporary periods of joy."

"But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings."

"My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we *can* suppose."

"Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; its when you had everything to do, and you've done it."

"Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant 'idiot'."

"I thought I had an appetite for destruction, but all I wanted was a club sandwich."

"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of being."