IT'S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY'RE NOT /MEANT/ TO BE... - Terry Pratchett

"Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom."

"It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it."

"We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still."

"Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one."

"I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel."