Brian Fagan

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
― Mark Twain

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
― William Arthur Ward

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It

“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion