True Courage Is In Facing Danger When

If Your Heads Were Stuffed With Straw, Like Mine, You Would Probably All Live In The Beautiful Places, And Then Kansas Would Have No People At All. It Is Fortunate For Kansas That You Have Brains.

Some Of My Youthful Readers Are Developing Wonderful Imaginations. This Pleases Me. 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. For Aside From My Evident Inability To Do Anything "great," I Have Learned To Regard Fame As A Will-o-the-wisp Which, When Caught, Is Not Worth The Possession; But To Please A Child Is A Sweet And Lovely Thing That Warms One's Heart And Brings Its Own Reward.

How Very Wet This Water Is.

I Am Oz, The Great And Terrible," Spoke The Beast, In A Voice That Was One Great Roar. Who Are You, And Why Do You Seek Me?

People Would Rather Live In Homes Regardless Of Its Grayness. There Is No Place Like Home.