Jack London

"The secret to happiness is low expectations."

"Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it."

"One can never be too careful in the selection of one's enemies."

"He had learned to loaf effectively, and was jealous of those who would rob him of this serenity."

"I love the roughs and the toughs and I find no delight in weakness and softness."

"A man grows to his full height only through struggles."

"The people of the abyss live and love and die."

"I am first of all a revolutionary, and I am a writer only incidentally."

"I have always been in love with far horizons and with all the mystery to be found therein."

"He was a great man, if a man may be great who never made a discovery or written a book."

"The moment one learns English, complications set in."

"I never ran my engine. I always ran my whole life at full throttle."

"Every atom of my body vibrates with this truth."

"The men who toil know nothing of the market."

"I want to live, to feel all that life has to offer."

"Nothing is permanent in this world except impermanence."

"I have sailed the seven seas and no man has bested me in a fair fight."

"The weak desire to weaken others, but the strong desire to strengthen others."

"I never took a drink before I was sixty years old."

"Patience is not a virtue; it is a vice."

"There is no room for the impotent in life."

"Money does not buy happiness, but poverty does not buy anything at all."

"In the Northland silence and immensity were pressing factors."

"The man who wastes no effort, who is always lazy, will never achieve his dreams."

"I have been in many things in my time, but I have never been poor."

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward."

"The time to enjoy a European trip is while you are having it."

"The fear of the wolf is the beginning of wisdom."

"I would rather fail in an attempt at something audacious than succeed at something safe."

"Forget thyself! This is the first and final commandment."