Michael Schmitt

“Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation. We are doomed to be forever hailing someone who has just gone around the corner and out of earshot.”
― Simon Schama, Dead Certainties: Unwarranted Speculations

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.”
― Larry Niven, Ringworld