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 didn't want anything, we would never get anything, good or bad. I think our longings are natural, and if we act as nature prompts us we can't go far wrong.

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.

I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.

In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child.

People would rather live in homes regardless of its grayness. There is no place like home.

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