“Man lives his whole life trying to figure out the secrets of life only to realize in the end life was the secret.”

“If experience is life's best teacher then why do we have to learn by example?”

“Never waste an unsaid word of praise and never praise the said words of anger.”

“If perception is stronger then reality why don't we just perceive to have a good day.”

“You can't change the cards you are dealt unless you stack the deck.”

“This was life as it should be lived—proud, reasoned, and a slave to no other man.”

“Vimes' meeting with the Patrician ended as all such meetings did, with the guest going away in possession of an unfocused yet very nagging suspicion that he'd only just escaped with his life.”