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.

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.

I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.

It isn't what we are, but what folks think we are, that counts in this world.

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.

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

If we walk far enough," says Dorothy, "we shall sometime come to someplace.