Stunt dwarf or destroy the imagination of a child and you have taken away its chances of success in life. Imagination transforms the commonplace into the great and creates the new out of the old.

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.

He kissed it better, ” she told them.

One failure teaches you ten ways to success.

Her laughter was a shiny thing, like pewter flung high in the air.

Because a time comes in every man's life when he decides what sort of man he's going to be: the kind who lets other people walk all over him, or not.

The Lourie Center eases the burden of children and their families through early intervention and diagnoses and treatment.

The horse never knows I'm there until he needs me.

You'll probably get three horses and you have to draw a good buckin' horse. That's mighty tough.

I have some weird habits. For instance, I love beets. Show me a salad bar and I will clean them out of their beets.

If your friends won't tell you the truth, who will?

Traveling makes men wiser, but less happy.