I daresay that this is quite a lot of pressure to put on one's friend! It strikes me as better to foster and perfect the beauty in one's own heart than it is to seek such beauty outside oneself.

Yes, yes - beauty's merit lay not in contemplation of it, but by its engendering. To create beauty in the face of the world and against the pornography of violence and greed that are endemic to it, that is a castle build of solid rock.

- Dr. Thaddeus P. Tingleberry