Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization. A prominent educator tells me that fairy tales are of untold value in developing imagination in the young. I believe it.

Going so soon? I wouldn't hear of it. Why my little party's just beginning. ~ Wicked Witch of the West Wizard of Oz

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

It is kindness that makes one strong and brave; and so we are kind to our prisoners.

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

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.

The Tin Woodman knew very well he had no heart, and therefore he took great care never to be cruel or unkind to anything.