"If you think that you are handicapped in some way, you will find that your compensation for it is a quality that you wouldn't have cultivated if it were not for that innate flaw. Indeed, one is never so strong as when one is broken."

~Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, Awakening: A Sufi Experience

"Beware of confining yourself to a particular belief and denying all else, for much good would elude you --- indeed, the knowledge of reality would elude you."

~Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan and Ibn al 'Arabi, Awakening: A Sufi Experience

"In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded."

~Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

"We cannot choose what we are, yet what are we, but the sum of our choices?"

~Rob Grant, Backwards

"Don't trust Time. Time will always get you in the end."

~Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, Better Than Life

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

~Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

"A mirror can contain the reflection of the whole universe, a whole skyful of stars in a piece of silvered glass no thicker than a breath."

~Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad

"I don’t like when I can’t control what reality is doing. Which is unfortunate because reality works independently of the things I want, and I have only a limited number of ways to influence it, none of which are guaranteed to work."

~Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

"Hate hurts the hater more than the hated."

 ~Madeleine L'Engle, A Swiftly Tilting Planet

"Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real."

 ~Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

"People have believed for hundreds of years that newts in a well mean that the water’s fresh and drinkable, and in all that time never asked themselves whether the newts got out to go to the lavatory."

 ~Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

"When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts."

 ~Michael Ende, The Neverending Story

"Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages."

 ~Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

" Million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten."

 ~Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

"It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done."

 ~Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

"The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp."

 ~Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic