Friends, I was pretty sure, lift their friends up; they don’t weigh them down like a sack full of stones.

There's no going back from what happened. You can go back and understand the past, but you can't go back and change it.

—Dana Reinhardt in Harmless

There are days when I think I don't believe anymore. When I think I've grown too old for miracles. And that's right when another seems to happen.

—Dana Reinhardt in The Summer I Learned to Fly

When there’s something or someone, when there’s anything that makes you happy, you don’t let a continent or an ocean or an empty pocket keep you apart.

—Dana Reinhardt in The Summer I Learned to Fly

Sometimes things happen. Things happen even when you don’t intend them to happen. Maybe at the beginning you had good intentions, or intentions you thought were harmless, but before you knew it things got out of your control.

—Dana Reinhardt in Harmless

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

I welcome each new day with a hopeful expectancy that I, too, will rise above the ordinary. For I am not content to live a merely “normal” life or settle for an average existence. No, I am destined for more—much, much more.

—Melody Carlson in Finding Alice

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.

—Wilson Mizner

But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

—Benjamin Franklin