There is no place like home.

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.

Without struggle, success has no value.

It's funny how you wanna leave them but still you give yourself every reason not to...

Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.

That's what makes death so hard--unsatisfied curiosity

Don't try to teach a pig to sing. It doesn't work, and it annoys the pig.

Every poem, formal or free, has an ideal shape, and the job of the poet is to find it.

Why is humanity so excessive in the way it does things? The golden mean seems out of fashion.

The reason why women effect so little and are so shallow is because their aims are low, marriage is the prize for which they strive; if foiled in that they rarely rise above disappointment.