L. Frank Baum

“Never give up. No one knows what's going to happen next.”

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

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

“There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger.”

“It is a curious thing, the more kind acts we do, the more kind acts we are likely to do.”

“The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.”

“If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with.”

“Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.”

“The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid.”

“I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones.”

“You have plenty of courage, I am sure. All you need is confidence in yourself.”

“But it's a story, and nobody minds a story as long as it's interesting.”

“All the same... 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.”

“You've always had the power my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself.”

“Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization.”

“A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.”

“Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't you think?”

“There is no place like home.”

“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.”

“To be angry is to be human. To forgive is to be divine.”