"The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try nothing and succeed."

"In all our efforts to provide 'advantages' we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history."

"What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner."

"The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: 'some do, some don't."

"As each child looks at the world through innocent eyes all they can see, Is the worlds way of life and the way they think their lives should be."

"An elephant: A mouse built to government specifications."

"Black holes are where God divided by zero."

"Rincewind had been told that death was just like going into another room. The difference is, when you shout, 'Where's my clean socks?' no-one answers."

"Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair."

"For 'tis the sport to have the engineerHoist with his own petard..."

"It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year."

"Sigmund Freud once said, 'What do women want?' The only thing I have learned in fifty-two years is that women want men to stop asking dumb questions like that."