Beware of writing to me. I always answer. . . My father spent the last 20 years of his life writing letters. If someone thanked him for a wedding present, he thanked them for thanking him and there was no end to the exchange but death.
Nobody gets in to see the wizard. Not nobody.
You have plenty of courage, I am sure," answered Oz. "All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty.
No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.
The more one knows, the luckier he is, for knowledge is the greatest gift in life.
Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.
The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.
No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love.
I thought that you had to learn to write by yourself and if you couldn't do it, then you were out of luck.
Mathematics is not the rigid and rigidity-producing schema that the layman thinks it is; rather, in it we find ourselves at that meeting point of constraint and freedom that is the very essence of human nature.
We deserve to know light. And grow evermore lighter and lighter.