L. Frank Baum Quotes
The reason most people are bad is because they do not try to be good." L. Frank Baum, The Emerald City of Oz, 1910
Perhaps it is better to be a machine that does its duty than a flesh-and-blood person who will not, for a dead truth is better than a live falsehood.
No matter how dreary and grey our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home.
Without knowing it the girl was arguing on the side of the world's expert criminologists, who hold that to destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him.
Dorothy did not feel nearly so bad as you might think a little girl who had been so suddenly whisked away from her own country and set down in the middle of a strange land
If we walk far enough, " says Dorothy, "we shall sometime come to someplace.
But you will admit that it is a very good thing to be alive.
This is the way to get ideas: never to let adverse circumstances discourage you, but to believe there is a way out of every difficulty, which may be found by earnest though.
In the civilized countries I believe there are no witches left, nor wizards, nor sorceresses, nor magicians" ~ The Witch of the North
And remember my sentimental friend that a heart is not judged by how much you love but by how much you are loved by others.