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

Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it.

No, indeed; I don't know anything. You see, I am stuffed, so I have no brains at all.

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

It's so kind of you to want to visit me in my loneliness. - The Wicked Witch of the West. Now I know I have a heart, because it's breaking. - The Tin Woodsman Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.

"It must be inconvenient to be made of flesh," said the Scarecrow thoughtfully, "for you must sleep, and eat and drink. However, you have brains, and it is worth a lot of bother to be able to think properly."

The more one knows, the luckier he is, for knowledge is the greatest gift in life.