Jack London

"I have seen the future, and it works."

"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it."

"To be great is to be misunderstood."

"The only true power is the power to create."

"The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."

"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."

"I would rather be ashes than dust."

"The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but in front and in back."

"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well."

"I believe that when life gives you lemons, you don't make lemonade. You use the seeds to plant a whole orchard."

"The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work."

"There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise."

"Daring is doing."

"The wild calls to those who hear it."

"Man cannot go wrong if he follows the sound of his own drum."

"I have not lived a sheltered life, and I believe I am better for it."

"The strong fall, but the stronger rise."

"Creativity is not found, it is forged in the fires of living."

"The greatest happiness is found not in what we have, but in what we give."

"In the end, the only things that matter are the connections we make."

"The primitive cannot be denied its power over the civilized."

"I am not afraid of the future, for I have already seen it."

"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves."

"Each man must find his own path through the wilderness."

"Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew."

"The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill one's heart."

"Knowledge without application is merely philosophy."

"I am a dreamer, but I am not alone in this."

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."

"To be a writer one must first be a thinker."