"I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy permanent planet. 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
"It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all."-Jack London
"The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life."-Teddy Roosevelt.
"Life's full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn't matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it."-Bear Grylls
"Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life." - Bertolt Brecht
"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
"Commerce, Opulence, Luxury, Effeminacy, Cowardice, Slavery : these are the stages of national degradation." -- William Cobbett
