It takes forty men with their feet on the ground to keep one man with his head in the air.
Terry PratchettNothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.
Terry PratchettInsofar as he'd formed any opinion of her, it was that she suffered from misplaced gentility and the mistaken belief that etiquette meant good breeding. She mistook mannerisms for manners.
Terry PratchettBefore you can kill a demon, you have to be able to say it's name. Names have power. While the word Alzheimer's terrorizes us, it has power over us. When we are prepared to discuss it aloud, we might have power over it. It's thought of as a mental illness and it is a physical illness, affecting the brain. There should be no shame in having it, yet people still don't talk about it
Terry Pratchett