My world, my world... How can such a good little girl like you destroy all of my beautiful wickedness. - Wicket Witch of the North

Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it.

True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid.

Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me.

Toto did not really care whether he was in Kansas or the Land of Oz so long as Dorothy was with him; but he knew the little girl was unhappy, and that made him unhappy too.

Oh, I see;" said the Tin Woodman. "But, after all, brains are not the best things in the world." Have you any?" enquired the Scarecrow. No, my head is quite empty," answered the Woodman; "but once I had brains, and a heart also; so, having tried them both, I should much rather have a heart.

. . .It is the Law that while Evil, unopposed, may accomplish terrible deeds, the power of Good can never be overthrown when opposed to Evil. . .