Lions and tigers, and bears, oh my! - Dorothy in Wizard of Oz

I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.

No matter how dreary and gray 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.

Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it -The Scarecrow - The Marvellous Land Of Oz by L. Frank Baum pg 103 chapter 13

It is worth a lot of bother to be able to think properly.

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

To be individual, my friends, to be different from others, is the only way to become distinguished from the common herd. Let us be glad, therefore, that we differ from one another in form and in disposition. Variety is the spice of life, and we are various enough to enjoy one another's society; so let us be content.