“We live in a vale of tears...We can have all the dreams we like, but life is hard, implacable, sad.”
“We cannot subscribe to the belief that this life is a vale of tears, though it once was just that for many of us. But it is clear that we make our own misery.”
“Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.”
“The innocence of such children doesn't answer our deepest questions about this vale of tears to which we are condemned, but it helps to dispel them. That is the secret to family life.”
“It is not true that 'we have only one life to live'; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.”
“Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.”