Rae Fox

“Being alone in an aeroplane for even so short a time as a night and a day, irrevocably alone, with nothing to observe but your instruments and your own hands in semi-darkness, nothing to contemplate but the size of your small courage, nothing to wonder about but the beliefs, the faces, and the hopes rooted in your mind - such an experience can be as startling as the first awareness of a stranger walking by your side at night. You are the stranger.”
― Beryl Markham, West with the Night

“Greatly begin! though thou hast time
But for a line, be that sublime --
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.”
― James Russell Lowell

“No human pursuit achieves dignity until 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.”
― Beryl Markham, West with the Night

“The height of your accomplishments is determined by the depth of your convictions.”
― William F. Scolavino