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.

I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.

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!

Nobody gets in to see the wizard. Not nobody.

...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.

The value of an artist is more because of his originality than his skill.

One of the difficulties with all our institutions is the fact that we've emphasized the reward instead of the service.

Don't let any man into your cab, your home, or your heart, unless he's a friend of labor.

Whether we force the man's property from him by pinching his stomach, or pinching his fingers, makes some difference anatomically; morally, none whatsoever.

Death has no need to be cruel, taking people's lives is more than enough.

There are a couple of teachers I have had without whose influence I would not be as happy with who I am.

The UNIA teaches our race self-help and self-reliance... in all those things that contribute to human happiness and well-being.

ATLANTA NIGHTS is sure to please the reader who enjoys this sort of thing.

I truly believe that if torture had worked and there was a case to be made for it, we would see that on the front pages of the American press.

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care the happiest, individual would not be either a man or a woman it; it would be, I think a cow.