Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it -The Scarecrow - The Marvellous Land Of Oz by L. Frank Baum pg 103 chapter 13

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.

Fear nothing but your conscience.

I respect marriage, and I think it's beautiful that people do it. But for me, more important than anything is having a peaceful life and a peaceful home.

I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.

HELPED are those who lose their fear of death; theirs is the power to envision the future in a blade of grass.

It's the weird thing Eton does - you're at school next to lords and earls and, in my case, Prince William, so you end up being used to dealing with those sorts of people.

We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane.

For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes.

I don't pray. When I was young, I vowed I never would be caught begging God. If I want something I get it for myself. I go to church only to show the old hens they don't get me down.

I am trying to keep growing and improving as a writer.

Repentance is a grace of God's Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed.