Jack London

Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club.

San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

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

Do you know the only value life has is what life puts on itself?

Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

Affluence means influence.

One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

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.