It is such an uncomfortable feeling to know one is a fool.

If we didn't want anything, we would never get anything, good or bad. I think our longings are natural, and if we act as nature prompts us we can't go far wrong.

I have learned to regard fame as a will-o-the-wisp...

"In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child," says good old Santa Claus; and if he had his way the children would all be beautiful, for all would be happy.

The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.

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

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.