As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other's faults.

If you only have brains on your head you would be as good a man as any of them, and a better man than some of them. Brains are the only things worth having in this world, no matter whether one is a crow or a man.

All the same,' said the Scarecrow, '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.' I shall take the heart,' returned the Tin Woodman, 'for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.

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

To be individual, my friends, to be different from others, is the only way to become distinguished from the common herd. Let us be glad, therefore, that we differ from one another in form and in disposition. Variety is the spice of life, and we are various enough to enjoy one another's society; so let us be content.

I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it.

Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason [...] When we waste time, we waste happiness.