Beryl Markham Quotes

I could never tell where inspiration begins and impulse leaves off. I suppose the answer is in the outcome. If your hunch proves a good one, you were inspired; if it proves bad, you are guilty of yielding to thoughtless impulse.

I have a trunk containing continents.

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.

No human pursuit achieves dignity unless it can be called work, and when you can experience a physical loneliness for the tools of your trade, you see that the other things - the experiments, the irrelevant vocations, the vanities you used to hold - were false to you.

Silence is never so impenetrable as when the whisper of steel on paper strives to pierce it.

You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.