Everything in life is unusual until you become accustomed to it.

A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others.

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?

Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.

The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.

Going so soon? I wouldn't hear of it. Why my little party's just beginning. ~ Wicked Witch of the West Wizard of Oz

Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't you think?

I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.

No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.

Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.

My people have been wearing green glasses on their eyes for so long that most of them think this really is an Emerald City.

She would pause sometimes to listen to the sound of the water as it lightly hit the walls of the fort. This too was music to her ears

It wasn’t that Nell was weak. It was that the world was dangerous.

If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.

Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.

A little work, a little play, To keep us going - and so, good-day!

After the idea, there is plenty of time to learn the technology

If you are not concerned about your neighbor's salvation, then I am concerned for yours.

We need a smaller and elite military, as [Donald]Rumsfeld said - and also a smaller and elite foreign policy.

Except for its worst inner-city slums, America is not the primitive capitalist jungle of European imagination, where human beings slink away like wounded animals to die in bloodstained holes.

As a man is, so he sees.