Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.