In the civilized countries I believe there are no witches left, nor wizards, nor sorceresses, nor magicians" ~ The Witch of the North

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!

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

It's the writing that teaches you.

Concentrate on the road ahead, not on the road behind!

Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the branches ought to produce.

What you resist persist.

Remember, 'Even this will pass away.'

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

However happy the director is, I have to be okay with it. I'm pretty strict with myself, about throwing things out or trying to be true to whatever the situation dictates.

Black Power alone is no more insurance against social injustice than white power.

Nothing we say is gonna save us from the fall out

Musing on the phrase 'waste of time.' So much more complex than it appears. Many 'wastes of time' small talk, daydreaming are imperatives.