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.

To be angry once in a while is really good fun, because it makes others so miserable. But to be angry morning, noon and night, as I am, grows monotonous and prevents my gaining any other pleasure in life.

To please a child is a sweet and lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings its own reward.

My people have been wearing green glasses on their eyes for so long that most of them think this really is an Emerald City.

I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.

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.

Oh, if Shakespeare says it, that's all right.