there are many Africas.

- Beryl Markham

Success feeds confidence.

- Beryl Markham

After that, work and hope. But never hope more than you work

- Beryl Markham

A life has to move or it stagnates. Even this life, I think. Every tomorrow ought not to resemble every yesterday.

- Beryl Markham

I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth into the air without knowing the un…

- Beryl Markham

A word grows to a thought – a thought to an idea – an idea to an act. The change is slow, and the Present is a sluggish traveler loafing in the path …

- Beryl Markham

You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself. You learn to watch other people, but you ne…

- Beryl Markham

There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes with morning in a forest, and this is diffe…

- Beryl Markham

If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.

- Beryl Markham