Mark Twain

The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book — a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.