Jack London

"Writing is simply having something to say and saying it."

"The struggle with the old is to kill it off, utterly and completely."

"Survival is the grim business of eking out, from a grudging environment, a precarious and temporary existence."

"The function of man is to live, not to exist—to have it all."

"Work is the only mechanism of release that can produce peace in the body and mind."

"Each man must choose his own path, for there is no path to freedom."

"I asked for pain, and I was given pain."

"Men come and go, but the earth abides."

"The proper function of a teacher is to supply the child with the facts of knowledge."

"Strength lies in truth; truth is beauty."

"I am I, and you are you, and there is the universe between us."

"Patience is the only way to accomplish great things."

"The greatest thing in life is having the courage to be yourself."

"Kindness is the most profound and effective force against evil."

"Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of harmony."

"Death is not the opposite of life, it is part of it."

"Beauty is that quality by the possession of which a thing excels."

"In my veins the blood of the warrior, the wanderer, and the dreamer flows."

"The health of being is in the balance and harmony of existence."

"I have lived and died many times and will do so again."

"Money is worth nothing if you have not the health to enjoy it."

"The science of life is in the knowledge of self."

"Imagination rules the world."

"The ultimate power lies in the ability to choose."

"Fear is the mother of all creation and destruction."

"Justice can only prevail when truth is universal."

"The voice of wisdom speaks in the quietness of the soul."

"Success is not the destination, but the journey of becoming."

"I am an evolutionist; therefore I believe in the slow development of life."

"The greatest invention of man is the ability to imagine."