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

I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.

I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.

People would rather live in homes regardless of its grayness. There is no place like home.

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!

Nobody gets in to see the wizard. Not nobody.

...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.

True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid...

If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with.

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.

If we walk far enough, " says Dorothy, "we shall sometime come to someplace.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

Anger always has a reason but there are no good reasons to be angry.

Often morality defines our inner philosophy.

As Kipling said, that’s another story...

Miles Davis turned his back to the audience when he came out on stage, and he offended people. But, he wasn't there to entertain; he was all about the music. I kind of do that.

When all else fails there's always delusion.

I have some memories of certain things that happened in high school when I was stoned out of my mind, but I talked with other people about them, and I trusted the aggregated memories.

Just when you think [Donald Trump] can stoop no lower, he does.

Who can ever be alone for a moment in Italy? Every stone has a voice, every grain of dust seems instinct with spirit from the Past, every step recalls some line, some legend of long-neglected lore.

I'm sure once my career's over, when I look back when I'm older, I can maybe appreciate it a little bit more.