Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. – Alexandre Dumas
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. – Alexandre Dumas
All human wisdom is summed up in two words wait and hope. – Alexandre Dumas
This is not simply a story about a frog and a prince. A story about a frog would be biological. A story about a prince would be historical. But a story about a frog-prince is magical, and therein lies all the difference. – Jane Yolen, Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie and Folklore in the Literature of Child