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

Victor had always said that most of the time happiness crept up on you when you were doing something else. He also said no happiness was ever wasted, because every happiness stays with you, and...

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

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

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.