A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others.

You have plenty of courage, I am sure," answered Oz. "All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty.

The Imaginative Child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization

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.

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

"In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child," says good old Santa Claus; and if he had his way the children would all be beautiful, for all would be happy.

Stunt dwarf or destroy the imagination of a child and you have taken away its chances of success in life. Imagination transforms the commonplace into the great and creates the new out of the old.