“I think you are a very bad man," said Dorothy."Oh, no, my dear; I'm really a very good man, but I'm a very bad Wizard, I must admit.”

“Dorothy said nothing. Oz had not kept the promise he made her, but he had done his best. So she forgave him. As he said, he was a good man, even if he was a bad Wizard.”

“But you will admit that it is a very good thing to be alive.”

“Oh, dear! Oh, dear!" cried Dorothy, clasping her hands together in dismay. "The house must have fallen on her. Whatever shall we do?”

“You people with hearts,' he said once, 'have something to guide you, and need never do wrong; but I have no heart, and so I must be very careful.”

“..."but there is no doubt they intend to kill us as dead as possible in a short time." - said the Wizard"As dead as poss'ble would be pretty dead, wouldn't it?" asked Dorothy.from "Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz”

“I shall really be very unhappy unless you give me the sort of courage that makes one forget he is afraid.”