Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.

Act, and God will act.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.

I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is growing up. In ‚The Colour of Magic‘ most of the city is set alight. It’s a joke, in much the same way that the Earth is destroyed almost at the start of Douglas Adams’s ‚The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.‘

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

To some extent I happily don’t know what I’m doing. I feel that it’s an artist’s responsibility to trust that.

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings.

People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I’ll give you an example; I don’t read what’s handed to me. People say, ‚Here, here’s your speech, or here’s an idea for a speech.‘ They’re changed. Trust me.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls… saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality?

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

Please don’t make the mistake of thinking that ‚Oryx and Crake‘ is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it’s neutral.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you’re supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

We all have the duty to do good.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man’s idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

My mother would kill me if I posed nude! My mother raised me with certain standards.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I’ve never detected any conflict between God’s will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

I don’t have to see a murder in order to condemn murder.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

I don’t use Twitter for bad.

To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved.

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

A promise must never be broken.

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all.