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

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

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

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
Jack London

Affluence means influence.
Jack London

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.
Jack London

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
Jack London