Nobody gets in to see the wizard. Not nobody.

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!

...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.

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.

I wanted a complicated life.

...music, music, records, records, noise to cover silence.

Chana knows, I wondered sometimes how I raised that child without strangling her. By age six, [Jasnah] was pointing out my logical fallacies as I tried to get her to go to bed on time.

Rather a drink be my master than a man.

We run away all the time to avoid coming face to face with ourselves.

Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.

I came out the womb dancing.

But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?

Light can be gentle, dangerous, dreamlike, bare, living, dead, misty, clear, hot, dark, violet, springlike, falling, straight, sensual, limited, poisonous, calm and soft.

Some people who like dogs don't like cats, but I'm not like that.