It is kindness that makes one strong and brave; and so we are kind to our prisoners.

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.

The apparent serenity of the past is an oil spread by time.

A body is merely a vehicle. The deepest emotions are experienced through the soul.

Chocolate is a vegetable. Honest.

The ideal artist is he who knows everything, feels everything, experiences everything, and retains his experience in a spirit of wonder and feeds upon it with creative lust.

Guns are part of the American identity.

Those who want respect, give respect.

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

Sometimes, some foreign reporters who come to Singapore to interview me, and they wonder, why we conduct Meet-the-People’s sessions at the void deck. So much for a first world nation.

There is no mortal whom pain and disease do not reach.

Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended.