David Schroeder

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Assuming stability is one of the ways ruins get made. Resilience accommodates the unexpected.”
― John Lewis Gaddis, On Grand Strategy

“I certainly didn’t feel like writing anymore. I couldn’t explain why, but the only emotion that I could arouse were feelings of anger and after staying mad all day and half the night, I was just plain tired. Mad at what? Just about everything, for just about everything was done wrong or it wasn’t done perfectly. Since nothing but perfection was acceptable, I stayed mad.”
― Dick Winters, Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters

“One day my grandson said to me, grandpa were you a hero in the war? And i said to him no I'm not a hero, but I have served in a company full of them.”
― Dick Winters, Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters