A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.

Dorothy said nothing. Oz had not kept the promise he made her, but he had done his best. So she forgave him. As he said, he was a good man, even if he was a bad Wizard.

When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children.

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

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

Everything in life is unusual until you become accustomed to it.

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