There's nothing weak about beauty, child. The only weakness in it is if you think it means anything important.

The ugliest thing in the world is a beautiful woman without the brains or courage to know that [beauty] is nothing more than an accident.

Everything is funny from some angle, I assure you it is. It's just a matter of where you're standing.

...but hope seduces like a silver tongue, double-edged like a dagger that cuts both ways.

There's nothing weak about beauty, child. The only weakness in it is if you think it means anything important.

We oft know little of who we were, only something of who we are, and nothing of who we may be.