L. Frank Baum Quotes

I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see, if I had had my own way, would have led to extensive mischief.

I was a pretty wild kid, and I probably lived 48 years in my first 20. But I always seemed to have a true line of faith for some reason.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.

A magazine editor recently asked me to sit down on my 40th birthday and write an article on the most important things I had learned in my first 40 years. I told him that the chief thing I had learned was that the copybook maxims are true, but that too many people forget this once they go out into the heat and hustle and bustle of the battle of life and only realize their truth once one foot is beginning to slip into the grave. The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

You may not get what you want, but God always gives you what you need.

Really you don't need more information. If you've lived twenty years, you probably have enough material for the rest of your life

Of course you do things differently in your 30s and 40s than in your 20s.

I do not think anyone can ever do anything without the help and will of God.

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

Life is not quantifiable in terms of age, but I suppose in my fifties I am more grounded and more at ease in my own skin than when I was younger. I have a confidence that I didn't have before from the experiences I've had.

Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.

I believe God will make a way.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

I feel like I've matured more musically than I have personally. But I totally embrace what becoming older has to offer. I find the wisdom that comes with each passing year is a trip.

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

I don't think anybody who has any wisdom regrets a minute of their life, as long as it takes you to the next minute, when things get a little better, and even when it doesn't.

Thank God for the journey.

I don't want to put a pause on the rest of my life; I'm really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that.

All I've been a part of has been thanks to the Disney company: the job, experience, travel, opportunities have come thanks to Disney. Working for Disney was not part of my original plan, but it was part of God's, and it shows that God is still moving.

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.