Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me.

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.

When you read about chemistry and physics, you want to do them too.

Wharton thought no one could have freedom, but James knew no one wanted freedom.

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Somewhere out there, a higherform of sadism won the first round.Well, screw that. I'm not ready to bepwned.

Compassion means removal of suffering – suffering of the self and the others.

As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.

Badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. Evil is a parasite, not an original thing.

People seem to think I'm Satan.

I didn't want to even stand next to any high rise building as long as I lived... I didn't even want to go over a bridge.

Fortunately, as it pertains to guns, my dad and uncle introduced me to guns the way it needs to be done: smart, slow and safe.