Today, I don't believe in destiny. But I do believe in history...There's nothing more powerful than history...

History doesn't choose individual people. History chooses everyone. Every day. The only question is: How long will you ignore the call?

History is simply what's behind us.

...history is a selection process - it chooses moments and events, and even people - it hands them a situation that they shouldn't be able to overcome, and it's in those moments, in that fight, that people find out who they are.

History isn't written by the winners - it's written by everyone - it's a jigsaw of facts from contradictory sources. But every once in a while, you unearth that one original document that no one can argue with...

Most archivists don't like surprises. That's why we work in the past.