Why don’t you focus on where you’re going and less on where you came from?.

I think people are like that. When you really look at them, you stop seeing a perfect nose or straight teeth. You stop seeing the acne scar or dimple….

Everybody who is somebody becomes nobody the moment they fail.

Usually redemption implies rescue - being saved. What were you being saved from?' he inquired, his voice carefully neutral. 'Ugliness..