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.

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.

Nobody gets in to see the wizard. Not nobody.

A little misery, at times, makes one appreciate happiness more.

Mortals seldom know how greatly they are influenced by fairies, knooks and ryls, who often put thoughts into their heads that only the wise little immortals could have conceived.

It is kindness that makes one strong and brave; and so we are kind to our prisoners.

That proves you are unusual,' returned the Scarecrow; 'and I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.