It is worth a lot of bother to be able to think properly.
The Imaginative Child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization.
It is kindness that makes one strong and brave; and so we are kind to our prisoners.
Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it.
Birds fly over the rainbow, Why then – oh, why can’t I? If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow why, oh why, can’t I.
In other words, the more stupid one is, the more he thinks he knows.
He brought toys to the children because they were little and helpless, and because he loved them.
The more one knows, the luckier he is, for knowledge is the greatest gift in life.
I have learned to regard fame as a will-o-wisp.
Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me.
The Tin Woodman knew very well he had no heart, and therefore he took great care never to be cruel or unkind to anything.
It seems unfortunate that strong people are usually so disagreeable and overbearing that no one cares for them. In fact, to be different from your fellow creatures is always a misfortune.
If you only have brains on your head you would be as good a man as any of them, and a better man than some of them. Brains are the only things worth having in this world, no matter whether one is a crow or a man.
Toto did not really care whether he was in Kansas or the Land of Oz so long as Dorothy was with him; but he knew the little girl was unhappy, and that made him unhappy too.
My people have been wearing green glasses on their eyes for so long that most of them think this really is an Emerald City.
It’s so kind of you to want to visit me in my loneliness. – The Wicked Witch of the West. Now I know I have a heart, because it’s breaking. – The Tin Woodsman Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.
Mortals seldom know how greatly they are influenced by fairies, knooks and ryls, who often put thoughts into their heads that only the wise little immortals could have conceived.
To be angry once in a while is really good fun, because it makes others so miserable. But to be angry morning, noon and night, as I am, grows monotonous and prevents my gaining any other pleasure in life.
Lions and tigers, and bears, oh my! – Dorothy in Wizard of Oz.
Oh, if Shakespeare says it, that’s all right.