Some sorts of truth are truer than others.

- 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

Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.

- Jack London

The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.

- Jack London

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

- Jack London

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

- Jack London

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.

- Jack London

I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.

- Jack London

The great task demanded of man is reproduction. He is urged by passion to perform this task. Passion, working through the imagination, produces love.…

- Jack London