Inspirational Quotations, Sorted by Author

A

• A. A. Milne English Children’s Books Writer
• A. Alfred Taubman American Businessman
• A. C. Benson English Essayist
• A. E. Housman British Poet
• A. J. Reb Materi Canadian Clergyman
• A. M. Rosenthal Canadian-born American Editor
• A. P. Gouthey
• A. P. Herbert English Humorist
• A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Indian Head of State, Scientist
• A. W. Tozer American Christian Pastor
• A. Whitney Brown American Comedian
• Aaron Burr
• Abbie Hoffman
• Abe Tannenbaum
• Abigail Adams American First Lady
• Abraham Cowley English Poet
• Abraham Hicks
• Abraham Isaac Kook Latvian-born Jewish Rabbi
• Abraham Joshua Heschel American Jewish Rabbi
• Abraham Lincoln American Head of State
• Abraham Maslow American Psychologist
• Adam Clarke British Methodist Scholar
• Adam Sandler American Actor
• Adam Smith Scottish Philosopher
• Addison Walker
• Adel Bestavros Egyptian Lawyer, Preacher
• Adela Florence Nicolson English Poet
• Adi Shankaracharya Indian Hindu Philosopher
• Adlai Stevenson American Diplomat
• Adolf Hitler Hungarian-born German Political leader
• Aeschylus Greek Poet
• Aesop Greek Fabulist
• African Proverb
• Agatha Christie British Novelist
• Agnes de Mille American Dancer
• Akbarali H. Jetha Indian Author
• Akhenaten Egyptian Monarch
• Akio Morita Japanese Entrepreneur, Engineer
• Akira Kurosawa Japanese Film Director
• Alain de Botton
• Alan Alda American Actor
• Alan Ashley-Pitt (Francis Phillip Wernig) American Writer, Aphorist
• Alan Greenspan American Economist
• Alan Kay
• Alan Loy McGinnis American Christian Psychotherapist
• Alan Watts British Buddhist Philosopher
• Albert Benjamin Simpson Canadian Protestant Preacher
• Albert Camus Algerian-born French Philosopher
• Albert Einstein German-born Theoretical Physicist
• Albert Pike American Military Leader
• Albert Schweitzer French Theologian
• Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
• Alberto Giacometti Swiss Sculptor
• Aldous Huxley English Humanist
• Alec Baldwin American Actor
• Aleister Crowley English Occultist
• Alexander Graham Bell Scottish-born American Inventor
• Alexander Herzen
• Alexander Lockheart
• Alexander Pope English Poet
• Alexander Pushkin National Poet of Russia
• Alexander Woollcott American Critic
• Alexandre Dumas, fils
• Alexis Carrel American Surgeon
• Alexis de Tocqueville French Philosopher
• Alfred A. Montapert
• Alfred Adler Austrian Psychologist
• Alfred Downing Fripp
• Alfred Dunhill
• Alfred Hitchcock British-born American Film Director
• Alfred Korzybski Polish-born American Philosopher
• Alfred North Whitehead English Mathematician
• Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. American Businessman, Philanthropist
• Alfred Whitney Griswold American Historian
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson British Poet
• Algernon Charles Swinburne English Poet
• Alice Walker
• Alicia Silverstone
• Alison Rose Levy
• Allen Klein American Businessperson
• Alphonse de Lamartine French Writer
• Alvin Toffler
• Amanda Bradley
• Amar Bose American Entrepreneur
• Ambrose Bierce American Editor
• Ambrose Hollingworth Redmoon (James Neil Hollingworth)
• Amelia Earhart American Aviator
• American Indian Proverb
• Amiri Baraka
• Amish Proverb
• Amos Bronson Alcott American Teacher
• Amos Tversky
• Amy Carmichael
• Amy Grant
• An Wang Chinese-born American Engineer
• Anacharsis Scythian Philosopher
• Anais Nin French-American Essayist
• Ananda Coomaraswamy
• Anatole Broyard American Literary Critic
• Anatole France French Novelist
• Andre Agassi American Tennis Player
• Andre Dubus American Short Story Writer
• Andre Gide French Novelist
• Andre Maurois
• Andrew Carnegie Scottish-American Industrialist, Philanthropist
• Andrew Grove Hungarian-born American Businessperson
• Andrew Jackson American Head of State
• Andrew Marvell English Poet
• Andrew Schneider
• Andrew V. Mason
• Andy Rooney American Writer
• Andy Warhol American Painter
• Ang Lee Taiwanese Film Director, Screenwriter
• Angela Carter English Novelist, Short Story Writer
• Angelina Jolie American Actor
• Anil Ambani Indian Businessperson
• Anita Loos American Actor
• Anna Brownell Jameson
• Anna Pavlova Russian Dancer
• Anne Bradstreet English Poet
• Anne Bronte English Novelist, Poet
• Anne Frank German Holocaust Victim
• Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie English Novelist, Biographer
• Anne Lamott
• Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
• Anne M. Mulcahy American Businessperson
• Anne Morrow Lindbergh American Author, Aviator
• Anne Sullivan Macy American Educator
• Annie Besant British-born Indian Theosophist
• Annie Dillard
• Annie Leibovitz American Photographer
• Anonymous
• Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury
• Anthony de Mello Indian-born American Theologian
• Anthony J. D’Angelo
• Anthony of Padua Portuguese Catholic Saint
• Anthony Powell English Novelist
• Anthony Trollope English Novelist
• Antoine de Saint-Exupery French Novelist, Aviator 
• Anton Chekhov Russian Short Story Writer
• Antonin Sertillanges
• Antonio Porchia Italian Poet
• Anwar el-Sadat Egyptian Head of State
• Arabic Proverb
• Archibald Alexander Hodge American Presbyterian Theologian
• Archibald MacLeish American Poet, Dramatist 
• Archilochus
• Aretha Franklin American Gospel And Soul Singer 
• Aristophanes Greek Comic Playwright
• Aristotle Ancient Greek Philosopher
• Aristotle Onassis Greek Businessperson
• Arlene Blum
• Arlo Guthrie American Singer
• Armand Hammer
• Arnold Bennett British Novelist
• Arnold Glasow American Businessman
• Arnold J. Toynbee British Historian
• Arnold Palmer American Sportsperson
• Arnold Schwarzenegger Austrian-born American Actor
• Art Linkletter Canadian-born American Radio Personality
• Arthur Ashe American Sportsperson
• Arthur Brisbane American Journalist
• Arthur C. Clarke British Author
• Arthur Calwell
• Arthur Conan Doyle English Novelist
• Arthur Eddington English Astrophysicist
• Arthur Gordon
• Arthur Helps English Dramatist
• Arthur Henry Hallam
• Arthur Koestler
• Arthur Miller American Playwright
• Arthur Ransome
• Arthur Rimbaud French Poet
• Arthur Rubinstein Polish-born American Composer
• Arthur Schopenhauer German Philosopher
• Arthur Sherburne Hardy American Engineer
• Arthur W. Newcomb
• Arthur Warwick
• Arthur Wing Pinero English Actor
• Ashleigh Brilliant British Cartoonist
• Ashley Montagu
• Ashoka
• Ask Ann Landers
• Athenaeus
• Aubrey Thomas de Vere Irish Poet
• Audrey Hepburn Belgian-born British Actor
• August Strindberg Swedish Playwright
• August Wilhelm Schlegel
• Auguste Rodin French Sculptor
• Augustine Birrell English Politician
• Augustine of Hippo Roman-African Christian Philosopher
• Aung San Suu Kyi
• Ausonius Latin Poet
• Austin O’Malley
• Austin Phelps American Presbyterian Clergyman
• Avi (Edward Irving Wortis) American Writer
• Ayn Rand Russian-born American Novelist

B

• B. C. Forbes Scottish-born American Journalist
• B. Earl Puckett American Businessperson
• B. F. Skinner American Psychologist
• B. H. Liddell Hart English Historian
• B. K. S. Iyengar Indian Hindu Yoga Teacher
• B. R. Ambedkar Indian Jurist, Economist, Politician, Social Refor
• Babe Ruth American Sportsperson
• Babylonian Proverb
• Bahya ibn Paquda Spanish Jewish Philosopher
• Bainbridge Colby
• Baltasar Gracian
• Barack Obama American Head of State
• Barbara Bush American First Lady
• Barbara De Angelis American Lecturer
• Barbara Ehrenreich
• Barbara Grizzuti Harrison American Journalist
• Barbara Kingsolver American Novelist
• Barbara Smith
• Barbra Streisand American Musician
• Barry Goldwater American Elected Representative
• Barthold G. Niebuhr
• Baruch Spinoza Dutch Philosopher
• Basava Indian Hindu Philosopher
• Basil King
• Bayard Taylor American Poet
• Bear Bryant American Sportsperson
• Becky Stanford
• Bede Jarrett
• Beilby Porteus English Anglican Reformer
• Bela Bartok Hungarian Composer, Ethnomusicologist
• Ben Casnocha American Entrepreneur, Investor
• Ben Hecht
• Ben Jonson English Dramatist
• Ben Stein American Lawyer
• Ben Sweetland
• Benito Mussolini Italian Head of State
• Benjamin Disraeli British Head of State
• Benjamin Franklin American Political leader
• Benjamin Graham American Investor
• Benjamin Harrison American Political leader
• Benjamin Haydon English Painter
• Benjamin Jowett
• Benjamin Mays American Minister
• Benjamin Whichcote British Anglican Priest
• Bergen Evans
• Bernard Berenson Russian-born American Art Historian
• Bernard Edmonds
• Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle French Essayist
• Bernard Malamud American Novelist
• Bernard Mandeville
• Bernard Meltzer American Radio Personality
• Bernard of Clairvaux French Catholic Religious Leader
• Bernice Johnson Reagon American Singer
• Bernie Siegel
• Bert Williams
• Berthold Auerbach German Jewish Poet
• Bertolt Brecht German Poet
• Bertrand A. Russell British Philosopher
• Beryl Bainbridge British Novelist
• Beryl Markham British-born Kenyan Aviator
• Bessie Anderson Stanley American Poet
• Bessie Coleman
• Bette Midler American Singer
• Betty Smith
• Beverly Sills American Singer
• Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura Indian Hindu Religious Leader
• Bhartruhari
• Bias of Priene Ancient Greek Philosopher
• Bill Bonner American Finance Author
• Bill Bryson American Humorist
• Bill Clinton American Head of State
• Bill Cosby American Actor
• Bill Gates American Businessperson
• Bill Joy American Computer Scientist
• Bill Maher American Comedian TV Personality
• Bill Taylor
• Bill Veeck American Sportsperson
• Billie Holiday
• Billie Jean King American Sportsperson
• Billy Graham American Baptist Religious Leader
• Billy Joel American Singer
• Billy Wilder
• Bits and Pieces
• Blaise Pascal French Catholic Mathematician
• Bo Lozoff American Interfaith Writer
• Bob Brown
• Bob Dylan American Singer
• Bob Goff American Philanthropist
• Bob Hope British-born American Comedian, Film Actor
• Bob Knight American Sportsperson
• Bob Marley Jamaican Musician
• Bob Newhart American Comedian
• Bob Weber American Sportsperson
• Bobby Unser
• Bodie Thoene
• Boethius Roman Statesman, Philosopher
• Bonar Thompson
• Bonaventure Italian Christian Scholar
• Booker T. Washington American Educator
• Booth Tarkington American Novelist
• Bosnian Proverb
• Brad Feld American Entrepreneur, Investor
• Brad Pitt American Actor
• Brassai
• Brenda Ueland American Journalist
• Brendan Behan Irish Poet
• Brian Aldiss English Novelist
• Brian Friel
• Brian Koslow
• Brian Tracy American Author
• Brigham Young American Mormon Religious Leader
• Brigitte Bardot French Film Star
• Brother Lawrence French Carmelite Monk
• Bruce Fairchild Barton
• Bruce Feirstein
• Bruce Jenner American Sportsperson
• Bruce Lee Hong-Kong-born American Sportsperson
• Bruno Bettelheim Austrian-born American Psychologist
• Buckminster Fuller American Inventor, Philosopher
• Buddhist Proverb
• Buddhist Teaching
• Buddy Hackett American Comedian
• Burton Hillis (William E. Vaughan) American Columnist
• Byrd Baggett
• Byron Katie American Speaker

C

• C. A. Dykstra American Government Administrator
• C. Northcote Parkinson British Historian
• C. P. Scott British Publisher
• C. P. Snow
• C. S. Lewis Irish-born British Children’s Books Writer
• C. William Pollard American Businessman, Author
• Calvin Coolidge American Head of State
• Cameron Diaz
• Cao Xueqin Chinese Writer
• Captain George T. Hewitt
• Carl Anton Ewald
• Carl Bernstein American Journalist
• Carl Jung Swiss Psychologist
• Carl Reiner American Actor
• Carl Rogers American Psychologist
• Carl Rowan American Public Servant
• Carl Sagan American Astronomer
• Carl Sandburg American Children’s Books Writer
• Carl Zuckmayer German Playwright
• Carlos Castaneda Peruvian-born American Anthropologist
• Carlos P. Romulo Philippine Diplomat
• Carly Patterson American Sportsperson
• Carly Simon
• Carmelia Elliott
• Carol Bartz American Businesswoman
• Carol Gilligan
• Carol Lloyd
• Carole King American Singer
• Caroline Kennedy American Author
• Caroline Schoeder American Aphorist
• Carrie Chapman Catt American Civil Rights Leader
• Carrie Fisher
• Cary Grant British-born American Actor
• Casey Robinson American Film Producer
• Casey Stengel American Sportsperson
• Caskie Stinnett American Travel Writer, Humorist
• Catherine Deneuve French Actor
• Catherine II of Russia Russian Empress
• Catherine of Siena Italian Philosopher
• Catherine Ponder
• Cato the Elder (Marcus Porcius Cato) Ancient Roman Political leader
• Cato the Younger (Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis) Roman Politician
• Catullus Roman Latin Poet
• Cecil B. DeMille American Film Producer
• Celia Thaxter American Poet
• Celine Dion
• Cesare Pavese
• Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari Indian Hindu Political leader
• Chanakya Neeti
• Channing Pollock
• Charles A. Garfield
• Charles Barkley American Sportsperson
• Charles Baudelaire French Poet
• Charles Buxton
• Charles Caleb Colton English Angelic Priest
• Charles Cooley American Sociologist
• Charles Darwin British Naturalist
• Charles de Gaulle French Head of State
• Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu
• Charles Dickens English Novelist
• Charles Dudley Warner American Essayist
• Charles E. Popplestone
• Charles E. Wilson American Businessperson
• Charles Evans Hughes American Elected Rep
• Charles F. Kettering American Inventor
• Charles Farrar Browne (Artemus Ward) American Humorist
• Charles Forbes Rene de Montalembert
• Charles Francis Richter
• Charles Frederic Dubois
• Charles G. Dawes American Head of State
• Charles H. Brower
• Charles Henry Parkhurst American Clergyman
• Charles J. Givens American Self-Help Writer
• Charles Kingsley English Clergyman
• Charles Kuralt American Journalist
• Charles L. Allen American Methodist Minister
• Charles Lamb
• Charles Lindbergh American Aviator, Conservationist
• Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) British Anglican Author
• Charles M. Schulz American Cartoonist
• Charles M. Schwab American Businessperson
• Charles Mingus
• Charles Proteus Steinmetz German-born American Mathematician
• Charles Reade
• Charles Reynolds Brown American Congregational Clergyman, Educator
• Charles Sanders Peirce American Philosopher
• Charles Sheldon American Christian Minister
• Charles Simmons American Editor, Novelist
• Charles Spurgeon British Baptist Preacher
• Charles W. Chesnutt American Novelist
• Charles William Eliot American Educator
• Charlie Chaplin British Actor
• Charlie Munger
• Charlotte Bronte English Novelist, Poet
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman American Sociologist
• Chauncey Depew American Businessperson
• Che Guevara Argentinean Political leader
• Chester Barnard American Businessperson
• Chi-kai
• Chilon of Sparta
• Chinese Proverb
• Chinua Achebe Nigerian Novelist, Poet
• Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Indian-born American Novelist
• Chris LeDoux American Musician
• Christa McAuliffe American Teacher
• Christian Nestell Bovee
• Christina Rossetti English Poet
• Christina, Queen of Sweden Swedish Monarch
• Christopher D. Furman
• Christopher Hitchens Anglo-American Essayist, Social Critic
• Christopher Lasch American Historian
• Christopher Marlowe English Playwright
• Christopher Morley American Journalist
• Chuck Swindoll American Christian Pastor
• Cicely Tyson American Actor
• Cicero Roman Philosopher
• Clare Boothe Luce American Playwright
• Clarence Darrow American Lawyer
• Clarence Day American Memoirist
• Clarence Francis American Business Executive
• Clarissa Pinkola Estes
• Claude Bernard French Physiology
• Claude Debussy French Composer
• Claude Levi-Strauss
• Claude Monet French Painter
• Claude Pepper
• Claudian Roman Poet
• Clint Eastwood American Film Director
• Clive Barker
• Coco Chanel French Fashion Designer
• Colin Powell American Military Leader
• Colin Wilson British Philosopher
• Colleen Barrett American Businessperson
• Colley Cibber English Playwright
• Common Proverb
• Confucius Chinese Philosopher
• Connie Zweig American Minister
• Conrad Hilton American Business Person
• Constantin Stanislavski Russian Actor
• Constantine P. Cavafy Egyptian Greek Poet, Journalist, Civil Servant
• Conyers Middleton English Clergyman
• Cookie Lavagetto American Sportsperson
• Corita Kent American Artist
• Cornelia Otis Skinner American Dramatist
• Corrie Ten Boom Dutch Jewish Humanist
• Cort R. Flint
• Cosimo de’ Medici
• Coventry Patmore English Poet
• Crawford Greenewalt American Engineer
• Cullen Hightower American Humorist
• Cynthia Ozick
• Cyril Connolly

D

• D. H. Lawrence English Novelist
• D. T. Suzuki Japanese Buddhist Philosopher
• Daisy Ashford
• Dale Carnegie American Author
• Dale Earnhardt American Sportsperson
• Damon Runyon American Short Story Writer
• Dan Greenberg American Elected Rep
• Dan Millman American Children’s Books Writer
• Dan Quayle American Head of State
• Dan Zadra
• Daniel Day-Lewis
• Daniel Defoe English Writer
• Daniel J. Boorstin American Historian
• Daniel Kahneman American-Israeli Psychologist, Economist
• Daniel Webster American Elected Representative
• Danish Proverb
• Danny Kaye American Actor
• Dante Alighieri Italian Political leader
• Danzae Pace
• Darrell Royal
• Dave Del Dotto
• Dave Winer
• David Ben-Gurion Russian-born Israeli Head of State
• David Bly
• David Emerald
• David Foster Wallace American Novelist
• David Frost British Journalist
• David G. Myers
• David Hockney
• David Hume Scottish Philosopher, Historian
• David J. Schwartz American Writer
• David Letterman American TV Personality
• David Livingstone Scottish Congregationalist Clergyman
• David Lloyd George British Head of State
• David M. Burns
• David McCullough American Historian
• David O. McKay American Mormon Religious Leader
• David Packard American Businessperson
• David R. Hawkins
• David Rockefeller American Philanthropist
• David Sarnoff American Sportsperson
• David Seabury
• David Seltzer American Screenwriter
• David Starr Jordan American Zoologist
• David Suzuki
• David Viscott American Psychiatrist
• David W. Johnson American Business Executive
• David Whyte
• Davy Crockett
• Dean Karnazes
• Dean Williams Australian Leadership Consultant
• Deborah Norville American Children’s Books Writer
• Dee Hock
• Deepak Chopra Indian-born American Physician
• Demosthenes
• Denis Diderot French Philosopher
• Denis Waitley American Motivational Speaker
• Dennis Genpo Merzel American Buddhist Monk
• Dennis Wholey
• Derek Sivers American Entrepreneur
• Dero A. Saunders American Journalist
• Desiderius Erasmus Dutch Catholic Humanist
• Desire-Joseph Mercier
• Desmond Tutu South African Anglican Priest
• Dhirubhai Ambani Indian Businessperson
• Diana Trilling American Literary Critic
• Diana, Princess of Wales English Royal
• Diane Ackerman American Children’s Books Writer
• Diane Arbus American Photographer
• Diane Sawyer American Journalist
• Dick Gregory
• Dick Sutphen
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer German Lutheran Pastor
• Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Tibetan Buddhist Religious Leader
• Dinah Craik English Novelist
• Dinah Shore
• Dodie Smith British Novelist
• Dolly Parton
• Domenico Cieri Mexican Writer
• Don Herold American Humorist
• Don Juan DeMarco
• Don Marquis American Humorist
• Don Ward
• Donald E. Williams
• Donald Riggs American Academic
• Donald Trump American Businessperson, Head of State
• Doris Lessing British Novelist, Poet
• Dorothea Brande American Writer
• Dorothee Luzy Dotinville French Dancer, Actress
• Dorothy Canfield Fisher
• Dorothy Dix American Journalist
• Dorothy L. Sayers British Novelist
• Dorothy Parker American Poet
• Dorothy Thompson American Journalist
• Doug Larson
• Doug Williams
• Douglas Adams
• Douglas MacArthur American Military Leader
• Douglas Malloch
• Douglas William Jerrold English Dramatist
• Drew Barrymore American Actor
• Duane Alan Hahn
• Duke Ellington
• Dustin Hoffman American Actor
• Dutch Proverb
• Dwan J. Young
• Dwight D. Eisenhower American Head of State
• Dwight L. Moody Christian Religious Leader
• Dwight Macdonald American Film Critic

E

• E. E. Cummings American Children’s Books Writer
• E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax British Politician
• E. F. Schumacher German Mathematician
• E. J. Klemme American Educator
• E. Joseph Cossman
• E. L. Doctorow American Writer
• E. Lamar Kincaid American Protestant Minister
• E. M. Forster English Novelist
• E. Merrill Root American Educator
• E. O. Wilson American Naturalist
• E. Stanley Jones American Methodist Priest
• E. V. Lucas English Author
• E. W. Howe American Novelist
• Earl Nightingale American Motivational Speaker
• Earl of Chesterfield
• Earl Warren American Judge
• Earl Wilson
• Eastern Proverb
• Eckhart Tolle German Spiritual Writer
• Eda LeShan American TV Personality
• Eddie Murphy American Actor
• Eddie Rickenbacker American Military Leader
• Eden Phillpotts
• Edgar Allan Poe American Poet
• Edgar Degas French Painter
• Edgar Guest English-born American Poet
• Edgar Lee Masters American Poet
• Edgar V. Roberts
• Edgard Varese
• Edith Sitwell British Poet
• Edith Wharton
• Edmund Burke Irish Political leader
• Edmund Hillary New Zealander Explorer
• Edmund Spenser English Poet
• Edna O’Brien
• Edna St. Vincent Millay American Poet
• Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton English Poet
• Edward de Bono Maltese Physician
• Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
• Edward Everett Hale American Unitarian Clergyman
• Edward Farrell American Sportsperson
• Edward Gibbon English Historian
• Edward Hoagland American Essayist
• Edward Howard Griggs
• Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon
• Edward James Olmos
• Edward John Phelps
• Edward Keating
• Edward L. Curtis
• Edward Lear
• Edward McKendree Bounds American Methodist Clergyman
• Edward O. Thorp
• Edward Payson Powell American Author, Journalist
• Edward R. Murrow American Journalist
• Edward W. Ziegler
• Edward Young English Poet,
• Edwin Arnold English Poet
• Edwin Feulner American Economist
• Edwin Hubbell Chapin American Universalist Preacher
• Edwin Markham American Poet
• Edwin Percy Whipple American Essayist
• Egyptian Proverb
• Elbert Hubbard American Writer
• Eldridge Cleaver
• Eleanor Roosevelt American First Lady
• Eleonora Duse
• Elias Root Beadle American Clergyman
• Elie Wiesel Romanian-born American Writer
• Eliezer Yudkowsky American Scientist
• Elihu Root
• Elisabeth Elliot American Christian Author
• Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
• Eliza Cook English Author
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning English Poet
• Elizabeth Bibesco English Poet
• Elizabeth Bowen Irish Novelist
• Elizabeth Gilbert American Novelist
• Elizabeth I of England British Monarch
• Elizabeth Prentiss American Children’s Books Writer
• Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
• Elizabeth Taylor English Actor
• Ella Wheeler Wilcox American Poet
• Ellen DeGeneres American Comedian, Television Host
• Ellen Glasgow American Novelist
• Elliot Richardson American Lawyer
• Elvis Presley American Musician
• Emile Capouya
• Emile Zola French Novelist
• Emily Bronte English Novelist, Poet
• Emily Dickinson American Poet
• Emily H. Sell
• Emma Lazarus American Poet, Writer,
• English Prayer
• English Proverb
• Enoch Powell British Politician
• Epictetus Ancient Greek Philosopher
• Epicurus Ancient Greek Philosopher
• Epitaph of the Good Earl of Courtenay
• Erastus Wiman Canadian Journalist
• Eric Berne
• Eric Butterworth
• Eric Falkenstein American Economist, Investor
• Eric Hoffer American Philosopher
• Eric Lindros
• Eric Shinseki American Military Leader
• Erica Jong American Novelist
• Erich Fromm German Psychologist
• Erik Erikson German-born American Psychologist
• Ernest Hemingway American Author
• Ernest Holmes American New Thought Writer
• Erwin Rommel German Military Leader
• Ethel Merman American Actor
• Etty Hillesum Dutch Diarist
• Eudora Welty American Short Story Writer
• Eugene F. Ware
• Eugene O’Neill American Playwright
• Eugene V. Debs American Socialist
• Euripides Ancient Greek Dramatist
• Eva Young
• Evelyn Loeb
• Evelyn Waugh English Novelist
• Ezra Bayda
• Ezra Hall Gillett
• Ezra Pound
• Ezra Taft Benson American Mormon Religious Leader

F

• F. H. Bradley British Philosopher
• F. L. Lucas English Literary Critic
• F. Matthias Alexander Australian Actor
• F. Scott Fitzgerald American Novelist
• Fannie Flagg
• Federico Fellini Italian Film Director
• Federico Garcia Lorca Spanish Poet
• Felix Adler
• Felix Bloch
• Felix Frankfurter American Judge
• Finley Peter Dunne American Author
• Flannery O’Connor American Novelist
• Flavia Weedn
• Flora Whittemore
• Florence Nightingale English Nurse
• Florynce Kennedy American Lawyer
• Fo-sho-hing-tsan-king
• Ford Madox Ford
• Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Frances Ridley Havergal English Anglican Poet
• Francesco Guicciardini Italian Historian
• Francine du Plessix Gray Polish-born American Author
• Francis Bacon English Philosopher
• Francis Beaumont English Dramatist
• Francis de Sales French Catholic Saint
• Francis Drake English Military Leader
• Francis Edward Smedley
• Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Scottish Judge
• Francis Kelley
• Francis Marion Crawford Italian-born American Novelist
• Francis Quarles English Poet
• Francis Schaeffer American Presbyterian Religious Leader
• Francis Thompson English Poet
• Francois de La Rochefoucauld
• Francois Rabelais French Humanist, Satirist
• Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand
• Frank A. Clark
• Frank A. Garbutt American Inventor, Movie Pioneer
• Frank Abagnale American Fraudster
• Frank Hall Crane
• Frank Lane American Sportsperson
• Frank Lloyd Wright American Architect
• Frank Moore Colby American Educator
• Frank Outlaw American Businessperson
• Frank Sinatra American Singer
• Frank Tibolt
• Frank Zappa American Composer
• Franklin D. Roosevelt American Head of State
• Franklin P. Jones
• Franklin Pierce Adams American Columnist
• Franz Grillparzer Austrian Dramatist
• Franz Kafka Austrian Novelist
• Fred Allen American Humorist
• Fred Astaire American Actor
• Fred Shero
• Frederic Henry Hedge
• Frederic William Farrar British Theological Writer
• Frederick Banting Canadian Medical Scientist
• Frederick Buechner American Presbyterian Clergyman
• Frederick Douglass American Abolitionist
• Frederick II of Prussia Prussian Monarch
• Frederick Martin Lehman
• Frederick William Faber British Hymn writer
• French Proverb
• Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock German Poet
• Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi German Philosopher
• Friedrich Koenig German Inventor
• Friedrich Nietzsche German Philosopher
• Friedrich Ruckert
• Friedrich Schiller German Poet
• Fulton J. Sheen American Catholic Religious Leader
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky Russian Novelist

G

• G. B. Burgin
• G. K. Chesterton English Journalist
• G. Kingsley Ward
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez Colombian Novelist, Short-Story Writer
• Gail Godwin American Novelist
• Gail Sheehy American Journalist
• Galileo Galilei Italian Astronomer
• Gamaliel Bailey
• Garrison Keillor American Author
• Gary Ryan Blair
• Gary Sinise
• Gaston Bachelard French Philosopher
• Gelett Burgess
• Gene Moore American Designer, Window Dresser
• Gene Perret
• Gene Wolfe
• Geoffrey Chaucer English Poet
• Georg Christoph Lichtenberg German Scientist
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• George A. Tice
• George Augustus Henry Sala British Journalist
• George Bancroft
• George Bernard Shaw Irish Playwright
• George Boardman American Baptist Minister
• George Borrow English Novelist
• George Brossin Mere French Intellectual, Author
• George Burns
• George C. Lorimer American Baptist Clergyman
• George Carlin
• George Crabbe
• George D. Prentice American Journalist
• George E. Allen American Sportsperson
• George Edward Woodberry American Literary Critic
• George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) English Novelist
• George Farquhar Irish Dramatist
• George Fisher
• George Gissing English Novelist
• George Goodman American Economist
• George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick
• George H. W. Bush American Head of State
• George Halas
• George Harrison English Singer
• George Henry Lewes English Philosopher
• George Herbert Welsh Anglican Poet
• George Horace Lorimer American Editor
• George Jean Nathan American Drama Critic
• George Lois American Art Director
• George MacDonald Scottish Christian Author
• George Madison Adams American Politician
• George Marshall American Military Leader
• George Matheson Scottish Theologian
• George Matthew Adams American Columnist
• George Meredith
• George Morrisey
• George Orwell English Novelist, Essayist, Journalist
• George P. Putnam
• George P. Shultz American Economist
• George Parsons Lathrop
• George Peabody American Financier
• George Reeves
• George S. Patton American Military Leader
• George Samuel Clason American Businessperson
• George Sand French Novelist, Dramatist
• George Santayana Spanish Philosopher
• George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax English Political leader
• George Soros American Investor
• George Spring Merriam
• George W. Bush American Head of State
• George W. Crane American Psychologist
• George Washington American Head of State
• George Washington Bethune
• George Washington Burnap
• George Washington Carver American Scientist
• George Will American Columnist
• George William Curtis American Essayist
• George William Russell Irish Author
• George Wilshere, 1st Baron Bramwell English Judge
• Georges Bataille French Philosopher
• Georges Bernanos French Author
• Georges Braque French Painter
• Georges Clemenceau French Head of State
• Georges Gurdjieff Armenian Philosopher
• Gerald F. Lieberman
• Gerald Ford American Head of State
• Gerald Jampolsky
• Gerard de Nerval
• Gerhard Kocher Swiss Publicist, Health Economist, Aphorist
• Germaine Greer Australia Academic
• German Proverb
• Gertrude Stein American Writer
• Giacomo Leopardi Italian Poet
• Gian Carlo Menotti Italian-born American Composer
• Gilda Radner
• Giovanni Boccaccio Italian Writer, Poet
• Giovanni Ruffini
• Giuseppe Mazzini Italian Philosopher
• Gladys Bronwyn Stern British Novelist
• Gladys Taber
• Glenn Beck American Mormon Children’s Books Writer
• Glenn L. Pace
• Gloria Steinem American Feminist
• Golda Meir Israeli Head of State
• Gordie Howe American Sportsperson
• Gordon B. Hinckley American Mormon Religious Leader
• Gore Vidal American Novelist
• Gotthold Ephraim Lessing German Writer
• Grace Hopper
• Graham Greene British Novelist
• Grandma Moses American Painter
• Greek Proverb
• Grenville Kleiser Canadian Author
• Groucho Marx American Actor
• Guanyin
• Guillaume Apollinaire Italian-born French Poet
• Gunter Grass German Novelist, Poet
• Gustave Flaubert French Novelist
• Guy de Maupassant French Novelist
• Guy Debord
• Guy Finley
• Guy Kawasaki American Investor

H

• H. G. Wells British Novelist
• H. Jackson Brown, Jr. American Author
• H. L. Mencken American Journalist
• H. Norman Schwarzkopf American Military Leader
• H. S. M. Burns American Businessman
• Hada Bejar
• Hafez Persian Poet
• Haile Selassie
• Haim Ginott
• Haitian Proverb
• Hamilton Wright Mabie
• Han Suyin Chinese-born Eurasian Novelist
• Hannah Arendt German Political Theorist
• Hannah More
• Hans Carossa German Novelist
• Hans Christian Andersen Danish Author
• Hans Hofmann
• Hans Margolius
• Hans Morgenthau
• Hans Taeger
• Harold Bloom American Literary Critic
• Harold Kushner American Jewish Religious Leader
• Harold Macmillan British Head of State
• Harold Pinter British Playwright
• Harold S. Geneen
• Harold Stephens
• Harold Taylor
• Harold Warren Lewis
• Harper Lee American Novelist
• Harriet Beecher Stowe American Abolitionist
• Harriet Braiker
• Harriet Martineau English Sociologist
• Harrison Ford American Actor
• Harry Browne American Politician
• Harry Emerson Fosdick American Baptist Clergyman
• Harry Houdini Hungarian-born American Magician
• Harry Lloyd
• Harry S. Truman American Head of State
• Harry V. Quadracci
• Hartley Coleridge English Writer
• Harvey Fierstein American Actor
• Harvey Mackay
• Harvey Samuel Firestone American Businessperson
• Harvey Williams Cushing American Neurosurgeon, Biographer
• Havelock Ellis British Sexologist
• Hazelmarie ‘Mattie’ Elliott
• Hebrew Proverb
• Hector Berlioz French Composer
• Heinrich Heine German Poet, Writer
• Helen Hayes American Actor
• Helen Hunt Jackson American Novelist
• Helen Keller American Author
• Helen MacInnes
• Helena Blavatsky Ukrainian-born American Theosophist
• Henepola Gunaratana Sri Lankan Buddhist Monk
• Henny Youngman
• Henri Bergson French Philosopher
• Henri Cartier-Bresson French Photographer
• Henri de Montherlant
• Henri Fabre French Aviator
• Henri Frederic Amiel Swiss Philosopher
• Henri Matisse
• Henri Nouwen Dutch Catholic Priest
• Henri Poincare
• Henrik Ibsen Norwegian Playwright
• Henry Adams American Journalist
• Henry Chester
• Henry Clay American Politician
• Henry Clay Trumbull
• Henry David Thoreau American Philosopher
• Henry Drummond
• Henry Fielding English Novelist
• Henry Ford American Businessperson
• Henry J. Kaiser American Businessperson
• Henry James American-born British Novelist
• Henry Kaufman American Economic, Financial Consultant
• Henry Kissinger American Diplomat
• Henry L. Stimson American Political leader
• Henry Liddon English Theologian
• Henry Martyn Field
• Henry Miller American Novelist
• Henry Peach Robinson
• Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke English Politician
• Henry Stanley Haskins
• Henry Van Dyke
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow American Poet
• Henry Ward Beecher American Protestant Clergyman
• Heraclitus Ancient Greek Philosopher
• Herb Kelleher American Entrepreneur
• Herbert Agar
• Herbert Beerbohm Tree English Actor
• Herbert Hoover American Head of State
• Herbert Spencer English Polymath
• Herm Albright German-American Artist, Columnist
• Herman Melville American Novelist
• Hermann Hesse German-born Swiss Poet
• Hermes Trismegistus
• Herodotus
• Hesiod Greek Poet
• Heywood Broun American Journalist
• Heywood Hale Broun American Journalist
• Hillary Rodham Clinton American Head of State
• Hippocrates Ancient Greek Physician
• Hitopadesha
• Hokusai
• Holbrook Jackson British Journalist
• Homer Ancient Greek Poet
• Hong Zicheng
• Honore de Balzac French Novelist
• Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Roman Poet
• Horace Greeley American Elected Rep
• Horace Mann American Educator
• Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford
• Horatio Dresser American New Thought Religious Leader
• Hosea Ballou American Universalist Clergyman
• Howard Cosell American Journalist
• Howard Gardner American Psychologist
• Howard H. Aiken American Physicist
• Howard Schultz American Businessman
• Howard W. Newton
• Hubert Humphrey American Head of State
• Huey P. Newton
• Hugh Blair Scottish Clergyman
• Hugh Downs American TV Personality
• Hugh Lawson White
• Hugh Miller Scottish Geologist
• Hugh Prather American Christian Author
• Hugh Walpole English Novelist
• Hugo Black American Politician
• Humphrey Carpenter English Children’s Books Writer
• Humphry Davy British Chemist
• Hyman G. Rickover American Military Leader
• Hyman Judah Schachtel American Jewish Religious Leader

I

• I. Ching
• Ian L. Fleming
• Icelandic Proverb
• Ignaz Bernstein Russian-Jewish Bibliophile, Philanthropist
• Igor Stravinsky Russian-born American Composer
• Immanuel Hermann Fichte German Philosopher
• Immanuel Kant Prussian German Philosopher
• Inayat Khan Indian Sufi Mystic
• Indian Proverb
• Indira Gandhi Indian Head of State
• Ingmar Bergman Swedish Film Personality
• Ingrid Bergman Swedish Actor
• Ingrid Newkirk
• Ingvar Kamprad Swedish Businessman
• Inuit Proverb
• Irene Claremont de Castillejo British Psychoanalyst
• Irene Kassorla
• Iris Murdoch English Novelist
• Irish Blessing
• Irish Proverb
• Irvin S. Cobb American Humorist
• Irving Berlin
• Irwin Federman
• Isaac Asimov Russian-born American Children’s Books Writer
• Isaac Barrow
• Isaac Bashevis Singer Polish-born American Children’s Books Writer
• Isaac D’Israeli
• Isaac Newton English Physicist
• Isaac Watts English Hymn writer
• Isabel Allende
• Isadora Duncan American Dancer
• Isha Upanishad
• Israel Zangwill British Humorist
• Italian Proverb
• Italo Calvino Italian Journalist
• Ivan Panin
• Ivern Ball American Writer, Aphorist

J

• J. B. Priestley English Novelist
• J. B. S. Haldane British Biologist
• J. Clyde Mitchell
• J. D. Salinger American Actor
• J. E. Buckrose
• J. G. Ballard English Novelist
• J. Harold Wilkins
• J. Irwin Miller American Businessperson
• J. K. Rowling British Children’s Books Writer
• J. Laing Burns, Jr.
• J. M. Barrie Scottish Novelist
• J. P. Morgan American Businessperson
• J. P. Vaswani Indian Hindu Philosopher
• J. Paul Getty American Business Person
• J. Robert Oppenheimer American Theoretical Physicist
• J. W. Marriott, Jr. American Businessperson
• J. William Fulbright American Political leader
• Jacinto Benavente Spanish Dramatists
• Jack Kerouac American Novelist, Poet
• Jack Kornfield American Buddhist Teacher, Author
• Jack London
• Jack Nicklaus American Sportsperson
• Jack Penn South African Surgeon
• Jack Welch American Businessperson
• Jackie Gleason
• Jacob Gelt Dekker
• Jacqueline Carey American Novelist
• Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis American First Lady
• Jacques Barzun French-born American Historian
• Jacques Cousteau French Military Leader
• Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi Persian Muslim Mystic
• James A. Garfield American Head of State
• James A. Michener American Novelist
• James Abbott McNeill Whistler American Painter
• James Agee American Author
• James Allen
• James Anthony Froude British Historian
• James Baldwin
• James Beattie
• James Boswell Scottish Biographer, Diarist
• James Branch Cabell
• James Broughton American Poet
• James Bryant Conant American Chemist
• James Cash Penney American Entrepreneur
• James Cook British Explorer
• James Crooks
• James D. Bryden
• James Dean
• James Dewar
• James Earl Jones American Actor
• James F. Byrnes American Elected Representative
• James Fallows American Journalist
• James Fenimore Cooper American Novelist
• James Fenton
• James Freeman Clarke American Unitarian Clergyman
• James Gibbons American Catholic Religious Leader
• James Grant American Writer, Publisher
• James H. Austin American Buddhist Neuroscientist
• James Hamilton
• James Harvey Robinson American Historian
• James Howell
• James Joyce Irish Novelist
• James Lane Allen American Novelist
• James Montgomery English Hymn writer
• James Oppenheim
• James R. Sherman
• James Randolph Adams American Advertising Executive
• James Russell Lowell American Poet
• James Sharp
• James Thurber
• James Truslow Adams American Historian
• James Whitcomb Riley American Children’s Books Writer
• James X. Mullen
• James Yorke
• Jamie Lee Curtis American Children’s Books Writer
• Jane Addams American Social Activist
• Jane Austen English Novelist
• Janet Erskine Stuart English Catholic Nun
• Janis Joplin
• Japanese Proverb
• Jason Zweig American Personal Finance Columnist
• Jawaharlal Nehru Indian Head of State
• Jay Huenfeld
• Jay Leno American Comedian
• Jean Anouilh
• Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin French Lawyer
• Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Swiss Poet
• Jean Baptiste Massillon French Catholic Religious Leader
• Jean Baudrillard French Sociologist, Philosopher
• Jean Cocteau French Poet
• Jean de La Bruyere
• Jean de La Fontaine French Poet
• Jean Giono French Novelist
• Jean Houston American New Thought Author
• Jean Kerr
• Jean Paul German Novelist
• Jean Racine French Dramatist
• Jean Sibelius Finnish Composer
• Jean-Baptiste Andre Godin
• Jean-Francois Regnard
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau Swiss Philosopher
• Jean-luc Godard French-born Swiss Film Director
• Jean-Paul Sartre French Philosopher
• Jeanette Winterson English Novelist
• Jeannette Rankin American Social Activist
• Jeff Bezos American Businessman
• Jeffrey David Lang
• Jeffrey Immelt American Businessperson
• Jeffrey Pfeffer
• Jennifer Aniston American Actress
• Jennifer Yane
• Jenny McCarthy American Actor
• Jeremiah Brown Howell
• Jeremy Collier English Anglican Theater Critic
• Jeremy Taylor
• Jerome Greek Priest
• Jerome Nathanson
• Jerry Della Femina American Businessperson
• Jerry Seinfeld American Comedian
• Jessamyn West
• Jesse Conrad
• Jesse Jackson American Baptist Civil Rights Activist
• Jesse Lauriston Livermore American Investor
• Jessica Lucas
• Jessica Paris American Educator
• Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo British Buddhist Teacher, Nun
• Jewel Kilcher
• Jhonen Vasquez
• Jianzhi Sengcan Chinese Buddhist Poet
• Jiddu Krishnamurti Indian Philosopher
• Jim Bishop American Journalist
• Jim Carrey Canadian Actor
• Jim Loehr
• Jim O’Toole
• Jim Rohn American Entrepreneur
• Jim Ryun
• Jimi Hendrix American Musician
• Jimmy Buffett American Children’s Books Writer
• Jimmy Carter American Head of State
• Jimmy Connors American Sportsperson
• Jimmy Fallon American Comedian
• Joan Baez American Singer
• Joan Borysenko
• Joan Collins English Actor
• Joan Didion
• Joan Rivers American Comedian
• Joan Walsh Anglund
• Joe Dimaggio
• Joe Paterno American Sportsperson
• Joel A. Barker
• Joel Hawes
• Johan Christoph Schiller
• Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
• Johann Gottfried Herder German Lutheran Philosopher
• Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi Swiss Educator
• Johann Jacob Zimmermann German Nonconformist Theologian
• Johann Kaspar Lavater Swiss Christian Poet
• Johann Sebastian Bach German Composer
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German Poet
• Johannes Kepler German Mathematician
• John A. Appleman American lawyer, Encyclopedist
• John Adams American Head of State
• John Augustus Shedd
• John B. Sheerin American Catholic Columnist, Editor
• John Berger English Art Critic, Essayist, Novelist
• John Boorman
• John Brian-Paprock
• John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir Scottish Novelist
• John Bunyan English Christian Writer
• John C. Bogle American Mutual Fund Pioneer
• John C. Calhoun American Head of State
• John C. Maxwell American Christian Professional Speaker
• John Cage American Composer
• John Charles Salak
• John Cheever
• John Chrysostom Greek Christian Saint
• John Churton Collins English Literary Critic
• John Ciardi American Poet
• John D. MacDonald American Novelist
• John D. Rockefeller American Businessperson
• John D. Rockefeller III American Philanthropist
• John D. Rockefeller, Jr. American Philanthropist
• John Dewey American Philosopher
• John Donne English Poet, Cleric
• John Dos Passos
• John Douglas
• John Dryden English Poet
• John F. Kennedy American Head of State
• John Fletcher
• John Foster Dulles American Lawyer
• John Gay English Poet
• John Greenleaf Whittier American Quaker Poet
• John H. Crowe
• John Henry Newman British Catholic Clergyman
• John Herschel English Mathematician
• John Heywood
• John Howard
• John Howe Canadian Artist
• John Irving
• John James Procter
• John Jay Chapman American Biographer
• John Keats English Poet
• John Keble English Religious Leader
• John Kenneth Galbraith Canadian-born American Economist
• John Kerry
• John Kotter American Academic
• John Lancaster Spalding American Catholic Clergyman
• John Lennon British Singer
• John Locke English Philosopher
• John Loengard
• John Lubbock
• John Lyly English Dramatist
• John Lyons
• John M. Ford American Novelist
• John M. Richardson, Jr.
• John Major British Head of State
• John Marshall American Judge
• John Masefield English Poet
• John Mason Brown American Columnist
• John Mason Good
• John Maynard Keynes
• John Milton English Poet
• John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn British Political leader
• John Muir Scottish-born American Naturalist
• John Naisbitt
• John Neal
• John Nuveen
• John of the Cross Spanish Roman Catholic Mystic
• John Quincy Adams American Head of State
• John Reed American Journalist, Poet
• John Ruskin English Art Critic
• John Saul Howson
• John Steinbeck American Novelist
• John Stuart Mill English Philosopher, Economist
• John Sullivan Dwight
• John Sutherland Bonnell American Preacher
• John Thain Davidson British Presbyterian Preacher
• John Tillotson
• John Vance Cheney American Poet
• John Vianney French Catholic Priest
• John W. Foster
• John W. Gardner American Government Official
• John W. Raper American Journalist, Aphorist
• John Wanamaker American Merchant, Civil Servant
• John Watson (Ian Maclaren)
• John Wayne American Actor
• John Webster English Dramatist
• John Weiss American Author
• John Wesley British Methodist Religious Leader
• John Wicker
• John Wilkins English Anglican Clergyman
• John Witherspoon American Founding Father
• John Wooden American Sportsperson
• John Zimmerman American Sportsperson
• John-Roger, Peter McWilliams
• Johnnetta B. Cole
• Johnny Bench American Sportsperson
• Johnny Carson
• Jon Bon Jovi American Musician
• Jon Kabat-Zinn
• Jonas Salk American Biologist
• Jonathan Swift Irish Satirist
• Jonathan Winters American Comedian
• Jorge Luis Borges Argentine Writer
• Joseph Addison English Essayist
• Joseph Alfred Ernest Roy Canadian Lawyer
• Joseph Campbell
• Joseph Conrad Polish-born British Novelist
• Joseph Cook
• Joseph Goldstein American Buddhist Teacher
• Joseph Joubert French Essayist
• Joseph Rotblat
• Joseph Simmons
• Joseph Stalin Soviet Leader
• Joseph Storey
• Joseph Wood Krutch American Writer
• Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw) American Humorist
• Josh Brown American Financial Advisor
• Joshua L. Liebman American Jewish Rabbi
• Josiah Gilbert Holland American Novelist
• Joyce Brothers
• Joyce Carol Oates American Novelist
• Joyce Cary Irish Novelist
• Joyce Maynard
• Juan Montalvo Ecuadorian Author
• Judith Crist
• Judith M. Knowlton
• Judith Viorst American Psychoanalyst
• Judy Garland
• Jules Renard French Novelist
• Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney American Educator
• Julianne Moore American Actor
• Julien Offray de La Mettrie French Physician
• Julius Nyerere
• Junius
• Juvenal Roman Poet

K

• Kabbalah Teaching Jewish Mystical, Theosophical Tradition
• Kabir Indian Mystic
• Kalidasa Indian Sanskrit Poet, Dramatist
• Kalu Rinpoche Tibetan Buddhist Religious Leader
• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar American Sportsperson
• Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen)
• Karen Horney
• Karen Lamb
• Karl Barth Swiss Reformed Theologian
• Karl Marx German Philosopher, Economist
• Karl Menninger American Psychiatrist
• Karl Popper Austrian-born British Philosopher
• Kate Seredy
• Kate Winslet English Actress
• Katharine Graham American Publisher
• Katharine Hepburn American Actor
• Katharine Whitehorn English Journalist
• Katherine Anne Porter American Journalist
• Katherine Mansfield New Zealand-born British Author
• Katherine Paterson American Novelist
• Kathrine Palmer Peterson American Author of Grief Books
• Keith Ellis
• Keith Ferrazzi American Author
• Keith Richards English Singer
• Ken Blanchard American Author
• Ken Hakuta
• Ken Kesey American Novelist
• Ken Keyes, Jr. American Motivational Speaker
• Kenneth Tynan English Theatre Critic, Writer
• Khalil Gibran Lebanese-born American Philosopher
• Kimberly Johnson American Poet
• Kimon Nicolaides
• Kirk Douglas American Actor
• Klemens Wenzel, Prince von Metternich Austrian Political leader
• Knute Rockne
• Konrad Adenauer German Head of State
• Kurt Russell
• Kurt Vonnegut American Novelist
• Kusan Sunim Korean Buddhist Priest

L

• L. Ron Hubbard American Scientologist Religious Leader
• Lady Bird Johnson American Entrepreneur
• Lady Mary Wortley Montagu English Aristocrat
• Lama Surya Das
• Lama Thubten Yeshe Tibetan Buddhist Teacher
• Lance Armstrong
• Langston Hughes American Novelist
• Laozi Chinese Philosopher
• Larry Bird American Sportsperson
• Larry King American TV Personality
• Larry Lorenzoni
• Larry McMurtry
• Laura Ingalls Wilder American Author of Children’s Novels
• Laura Schlessinger American Children’s Books Writer
• Laurence J. Peter Canadian-born American Educator
• Laurence Olivier English Actor
• Laurence Sterne Irish Anglican Novelist
• Laurens van der Post South African-born British Political leader
• Lawrence Bossidy
• Lawrence Durrell British Biographer
• Lawrence G. Lovasik
• Learned Hand
• Led Zeppelin
• Lee Iacocca American Businessperson
• Lee Scott
• Lemony Snicket
• Lemuel K. Washburn
• Lenny Bruce American Comedian
• Leo Aikman American Columnist, Humorist
• Leo Burnett American Journalist
• Leo Buscaglia American Motivational Speaker
• Leo J. Muir
• Leo Rosten Russian-born American Humorist
• Leo Tolstoy Russian Novelist
• Leon Battista Alberti Italian Polymath
• Leonardo da Vinci Italian Polymath
• Leonardo DiCaprio American Actor
• Les Brown
• Les Giblin
• Les Parrott
• Letitia Elizabeth Landon English Poet
• Letty Cottin Pogrebin American Writer
• Lew Wasserman
• Lewis B. Smedes American Christian Author
• Lewis Thomas
• Ligia Kasten
• Lillian Gish
• Lillian Hellman American Playwright
• Lily Tomlin
• Lin Yutang Chinese Writer
• Lincoln Steffens American Journalist
• Linda Ellerbee
• Linus Pauling American Chemist
• Lionel Trilling
• Lisa Alther
• Lisa Kirk American Actor
• Logan Pearsall Smith American Essayist
• Lois McMaster Bujold American Novelist
• Lope de Vega Spanish Playwright
• Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) English Romantic Poet
• Lou Holtz
• Lou Reed American Musician
• Louis Armstrong American Musician
• Louis Bourdaloue
• Louis Brandeis American Justice
• Louis J. Glickman American Real Estate Investor
• Louis Kahn American Architect
• Louis Kronenberger American Critic
• Louis L’Amour
• Louis Leo Snyder American-born German Scholar
• Louis Nizer
• Louis Pasteur French Biologist
• Louis V. Gerstner Jr.
• Louis XIV of France
• Louisa May Alcott American Novelist
• Louise Erdrich American Children’s Books Writer
• Louise Hay American Author
• Lowell Thomas American Writer
• Lu Xun Chinese Writer
• Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues French Moralist
• Lucan (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus)
• Lucian
• Luciano de Crescenzo
• Luciano Pavarotti Italian Musician
• Lucille Ball American Actor
• Lucille S. Harper American Freelance Writer
• Lucimar Santos de Lima
• Lucretius Roman Poet
• Lucy Maud Montgomery Canadian Novelist
• Ludwig Mies van der Rohe German-born American Architect
• Ludwig van Beethoven German Composer
• Ludwig von Mises Austrian Economist
• Ludwig Wittgenstein Austrian Philosopher
• Luigi Pirandello Italian Dramatist
• Luther Burbank American Botanist
• Lydia H. Sigourney
• Lydia Maria Child American Abolitionist
• Lyn St. James American Sportsperson
• Lynda Barry American Cartoonist
• Lyndon B. Johnson American Head of State
• Lynwood L. Giacomini American Publisher, Bibliophile
• Lytton Strachey British Biographer

M

• M. C. Richards
• M. F. K. Fisher American Writer
• M. Kathleen Casey
• M. Scott Peck American Psychiatrist
• Mabel Newcomer
• Mack R. Douglas
• Madeleine Albright Czech-born American Diplomat
• Madeline Bridges
• Madonna American Pop Singer, Actress
• Mae Maloo
• Maggie Mahar American Journalist, Author
• Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Indian Hindu Religious Leader
• Mahavamsa
• Malaysian Proverb
• Malcolm de Chazal Mauritian Writer
• Malcolm Forbes American Publisher
• Malcolm Muggeridge English Journalist
• Malcolm X American Muslim Religious Leader
• Malik Muhammad Jayasi Indian Poet
• Maltbie Davenport Babcock American Presbyterian Clergyman
• Mao Zedong
• Marcel Proust French Novelist
• Marcia Wieder
• Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus
• Marcus Buckingham English Management Consultant
• Marcus Manilius Roman Poet
• Margaret Barber English Christian Author
• Margaret Chase Smith
• Margaret Drabble English Novelist
• Margaret Fuller
• Margaret J. Wheatley American Management Consultant
• Margaret Laurence Canadian Novelist
• Margaret Lucas Cavendish
• Margaret MacMillan
• Margaret Mead American Anthropologist
• Margaret Mitchell American Author
• Margaret Thatcher British Head of State
• Margaret Trudeau
• Margaret Truman American Singer
• Margaret Walker
• Marge Piercy American Poet
• Margot Fonteyn
• Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Irish Novelist
• Maria Bartiromo American Television Journalist
• Maria Mitchell
• Maria Montessori Italian Physician, Educator
• Marian Anderson American Singer
• Marian Wright Edelman American Civil Regrets Advocate
• Marianne Espinosa Murphy
• Marianne Moore
• Marianne Williamson American Activist
• Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand French Socialite
• Marie Chapian American Children’s Books Writer
• Marie Curie Polish-born French Physicist
• Marie Dressler
• Marie Stopes British Author, Social Activist
• Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Austrian Novelist
• Marilyn Ferguson American Author
• Marilyn Moats Kennedy American Career Strategist, Author
• Marilyn Monroe American Actor
• Marilyn vos Savant American Columnist
• Mario Andretti Italian-born American Sportsperson
• Marion G. Romney American Mormon Religious Leader
• Mark Caine
• Mark Horstman
• Mark McCormack
• Mark Sanborn
• Mark Twain American Humorist
• Mark Van Doren
• Mark Victor Hansen American Public Speaker
• Marlene Dietrich German-born American Actor
• Marlo Morgan American Novelist
• Marquis de Sade French Political leader
• Marsha Norman American Playwright
• Marshall Field American Entrepreneur
• Martha Graham American Choreographer
• Martha Stewart American Entrepreneur
• Martha Washington American First Lady
• Martial Ancient Roman Latin Poet
• Martin Amis American Novelist
• Martin Buber
• Martin Farquhar Tupper English Poet
• Martin H. Fischer
• Martin Heidegger German Philosopher
• Martin Luther German Protestant Theologian
• Martin Luther King III American Human Rights Advocate
• Martin Luther King, Jr. American Civil Rights Leader
• Martin Seligman American Psychologist
• Martina Navratilova Czech-born American Sportsperson
• Martine Batchelor French Buddhist Teacher
• Marty Nemko American Career Coach, Author
• Marty Whitman American Investment Advisor
• Marva Collins American Educator
• Marvin J. Ashton American Mormon Religious Leader
• Mary Baker Eddy American Christian Science Religious Leader
• Mary Blake
• Mary Dawson Hughes
• Mary Elizabeth Braddon British Novelist
• Mary Engelbreit
• Mary Kay Ash American Entrepreneur
• Mary Manin Morrissey American Christian Religious Leader
• Mary McEachron
• Mary Oliver American Poet
• Mary Pettibone Poole
• Mary Pickford
• Mary Richards
• Mary Shelley English Novelist
• Mary Todd Lincoln American First Lady
• Mary Tyler Moore American Actor
• Mary Webb English Novelist
• Mary Welsh Hemingway
• Mary Wollstonecraft British Children’s Books Writer
• Maryanne Radmacher Hershey
• Masanobu Fukuoka Japanese Buddhist Polymath
• Masaru Ibuka Japanese Entrepreneur, Engineer
• Mason Cooley
• Master Sheng-Yen
• Mastin Kipp
• Matthew Arnold
• Matthew Prior
• Matthieu Ricard French Buddhist Monk
• Maureen Dowd American Columnist
• Maurice Baring
• Maurice Chevalier French Actor
• Maurice Maeterlinck Belgian Playwright
• Max Beerbohm
• Max De Pree American Businessman
• Max L. Forman
• Max Lerner
• Max Lucado American Christian Author
• Max Planck German Physicist
• Maxim Gorky Russian Writer
• Maxwell Maltz American Surgeon
• May Sarton American Children’s Books Writer
• Maya Angelou American Poet
• McLandburgh Wilson
• Mel Brooks American Film Actor
• Menander
• Meryl Streep American Actor
• Metastasio Italian Poet
• Mexican Proverb
• Mia Farrow
• Michael Badnarik
• Michael Bloomberg American Businessperson
• Michael Crichton American Novelist
• Michael Dell American Businessperson
• Michael E. Gerber
• Michael Friedsam American Philanthropist
• Michael Harrington American Socialist
• Michael Hogg
• Michael Jackson American Singer-Songwriter
• Michael Jones
• Michael Jordan American Sportsperson
• Michael Korda
• Michael Monahan
• Michael Ray
• Michel de Montaigne French Philosopher
• Michel Foucault French Philosopher
• Michel Houellebecq French Novelist
• Michelangelo Italian Painter
• Michelle Pfeiffer American Actor
• Michelle Richmond American Novelist
• Mick Jagger
• Mickey Rivers American Sportsperson
• Midge Decter American Journalist
• Mignon McLaughlin American Journalist
• Miguel Angel Ruiz
• Miguel de Cervantes Spanish Novelist
• Miguel de Unamuno Spanish Essayist
• Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• Mike Ditka American Sportsperson
• Mike Murdock
• Mike Myers
• Mikhail Gorbachev Soviet Head of State
• Milton Friedman American Economist
• Minna Antrim
• Mirra Alfassa
• Miyamoto Musashi Japanese Buddhist
• Mohandas K. Gandhi Indian Hindu Political leader
• Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya Indian Engineer
• Moliere French Playwright
• Molly Sargent American Management Consultant
• Monzaemon Chikamatsu Japanese Dramatist
• Morgan Housel American Financial Journalist, Investor
• Moroccan Proverb
• Mort Walker American Comic Artist
• Mortimer J. Adler American Philosopher
• Moses Maimonides
• Moses Mendelssohn German Jewish Philosopher
• Moshe Arens
• Moshe Chaim Luzzatto Italian Jewish Rabbi
• Mother Teresa Albanian Catholic Humanitarian
• Movie: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
• Movie: Forrest Gump
• Muhammad Ali American Sportsperson
• Mukesh Ambani Indian Businessperson
• Murasaki Shikibu Japanese Diarist, Novelist
• Muriel Strode American Author, Businesswoman
• Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Founder of the Turkish Republic

N

• N. R. Narayana Murthy Indian Businessperson
• Nachman of Breslov Ukrainian Jewish Religions Leader
• Nagarjuna Indian Buddhist Philosopher
• Nagasena Indian Buddhist Sage
• Naguib Mahfouz Egyptian Novelist
• Nahum Tate
• Nancie J. Carmody
• Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor American-born British Politician
• Napoleon Hill American Author
• Napoleon I French Monarch
• Natalie Clifford Barney American Playwright
• Natalie Goldberg American Buddhist Author
• Natasha Josefowitz
• Nathaniel Hawthorne American Novelist
• Nathaniel LeTonnerre
• Nathaniel Parker Willis American Author
• Neal A. Maxwell American Mormon Religious Leader
• Neale Donald Walsch American Spiritual Writer
• Ned Rorem
• Neetishatakam
• Neil Simon
• Nellie Hershey Tullis
• Nelson Algren American Novelist
• Nelson Boswell
• Nelson Mandela South African Political leader
• Neville Chamberlain British Head of State
• Newt Gingrich American Elected Rep
• Niccolo Machiavelli Florentine Political Philosopher
• Nicholas Murray Butler American Philosopher
• Nick Murray American Financial Consultant, Author
• Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
• Nicolaus Copernicus Polish Astronomer
• Niels Bohr Danish Physicist
• Nikita Khrushchev Russian Head of State
• Nikki Giovanni American Children’s Books Writer
• Nikolai Berdyaev Russian Christian Philosopher
• Nikolai Gogol Russian Novelist, Dramatist
• Nikos Kazantzakis German Greek Philosopher
• Nisargadatta Maharaj Indian Hindu Religious Leader
• Nitin Nohria Indian-American Academic
• Noah Webster American Lexicographer
• Noam Chomsky American Linguist, Philosopher, Social Critic
• Nolan Bushnell
• Nolini Kanta Gupta Indian Hindu Revolutionary
• Norman Cousins American Journalist
• Norman MacEwen British Military Leader
• Norman Mailer
• Norman O. Brown American Philosopher
• Norman Podhoretz American Political Activist
• Norman Vincent Peale American Clergyman, Self-Help Author
• Northrop Frye
• Noruin G. McGranahan
• Novalis
• Nyogen Senzaki Japanese Buddhist Monk

O

• O. Carl Simonton
• O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) American Writer of Short Stories
• O. P. Gifford American Baptist Pastor
• Octave Mirbeau French Journalist
• Og Mandino
• Ole Hallesby Norwegian Lutheran Theologian
• Olive Redmond
• Oliver Cromwell British Head of State
• Oliver G. Wilson
• Oliver Goldsmith Irish Author
• Oliver Herford American Writer
• Oliver Juanir
• Oliver Sacks
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. American Jurist
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. American Physician
• Omar Bradley American Military Leader
• Omar Khayyam Persian Mathematician
• Oprah Winfrey American TV Personality
• Orison Swett Marden American New Thought Writer
• Orson Scott Card American Author
• Orval Hobart Mowrer American Psychologist
• Oscar Hammerstein II American Songwriter
• Oscar Levant American Musician
• Oscar Wilde Irish Poet
• Ossian Herbert Lang
• Otomo no Tabito
• Otto von Bismarck Prussian German- Political leader
• Ouida (Maria Louise Rame) English Children’s Books Writer
• Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Roman Poet
• Owen D. Young American Businessperson
• Owen Feltham

P

• P. D. James British Novelist
• P. G. Wodehouse English Novelist
• P. T. Barnum American Businessperson
• Pablo Neruda Chilean Poet
• Pablo Picasso Spanish Painter
• Padmasambhava
• Pam Brown
• Pamela Hansford Johnson English Novelist
• Panchatantra
• Paramahansa Yogananda Indian Hindu Mystic
• Parks Cousins
• Patanjali Indian Hindu Philosopher
• Patrick Stewart
• Paul B. Lowney
• Paul Boese
• Paul Cezanne French Painter
• Paul Dudley White American Cardiologist
• Paul Frank Baer
• Paul G. Hoffman American Businessperson
• Paul Goodman
• Paul J. Meyer
• Paul McCartney British Singer
• Paul Newman American Actor, Philanthropist
• Paul Samuelson American Economist
• Paul Sweeney
• Paul Tillich American Lutheran Theologian
• Paul Vixie American Scientist
• Paulette Mitchell
• Pauline Phillips (Abigail van Buren) American Columnist
• Paulo Coelho Brazilian Songwriter
• Paxton Blair
• Pearl Bailey
• Pearl S. Buck American Novelist
• Pema Chodron American Buddhist Nun
• Percy Bysshe Shelley English Poet
• Percy H. Johnson
• Pericles
• Perry Paxton
• Persian Proverb
• Persius Roman Poet
• Peter Cooper
• Peter Drucker Austrian-born Management Consultant
• Peter Gabriel
• Peter Marshall
• Peter McWilliams American Author
• Peter Medawar
• Peter Senge American Management Consultant
• Peter T. McIntyre
• Petrarch Italian Scholar
• Petronius Roman Courtier
• Phil McGraw American TV Personality
• Philibert Joseph Roux French Surgeon
• Philip Doddridge English Nonconformist Religious Leader
• Philip H. Knight American Businessman
• Philip James Bailey English Poet
• Philip K. Dick American Novelist
• Philip Larkin English Poet
• Philip Massinger English Dramatist
• Philip Roth American Novelist
• Philip Sidney English Soldier, Poet, Courtier
• Philip Wylie American Dramatist
• Philippe Quinault French Dramatist
• Phillip C. Grant
• Phillips Brooks American Episcopal Clergyman
• Phyllis Bottome British Novelist
• Phyllis Diller American Actor
• Phyllis McGinley American Children’s Books Writer
• Phyllis Theroux
• Pico Iyer British-born Essayist, Novelist of Indian Origin
• Pierre Beaumarchais French Inventor
• Pierre Corneille French Dramatist
• Pierre Teilhard de Chardin French Jesuit Philosopher
• Pierre-Joseph Proudhon French Politician
• Pierre-Marc-Gaston, duc de Lévis
• Piet Hein
• Pietro Aretino Italian Author
• Plato Ancient Greek Philosopher
• Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus) Roman Playwright
• Pliny the Younger Ancient Roman Lawyer
• Plotinus Ancient Greek Philosopher
• Plutarch Ancient Greek Historian
• Polish Proverb
• Polybius
• Pope John Paul II Polish Catholic Religious Leader
• Pope John XXIII Italian Catholic Religious Leader
• Price Pritchett
• Publilius Syrus Syrian-born Latin Writer
• Pythagoras Greek Philosopher

Q

• Queen Victoria British Royal
• Quintilian Roman Critic

R

• R. D. Laing Scottish Psychiatrist
• R. G. Collingwood British Philosopher
• R. James Woolsey, Jr. American Diplomat
• R. K. Narayan Indian Novelist, Short-story Writer
• Rabindranath Tagore Indian Hindu Polymath
• Rachael Ray American TV Personality
• Rainer Maria Rilke Austrian Poet
• Ralph Bunche American Political Scientist
• Ralph Charell
• Ralph Ellison American Novelist
• Ralph Lauren American Businessman
• Ralph Marston
• Ralph Nader American Activist
• Ralph Vaull Starr
• Ralph Waldo Emerson American Philosopher
• Ralph Washington Sockman
• Ram Dass American Hindu Teacher
• Ramachandra Guha Indian Historian
• Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Indian Hindu Philosopher
• Ramana Maharshi Indian Hindu Mystic
• Ramsay MacDonald British Head of State
• Randolph Bourne American Writer
• Randy Gray
• Randy Pausch American Academic
• Raquel Welch American Actor
• Ray Bradbury American Novelist
• Ray Charles American Singer
• Ray Dalio American Investor
• Ray Kroc American Entrepreneur
• Raymond Chandler
• Raynor Scheine
• Rebecca West English Author
• Reggie Miller American Sportsperson
• Reginald Horace Blyth English Author
• Reginald Wright Kauffman American Novelist, Screenwriter
• Reinhold Niebuhr American Protestant Theologian
• Remy de Gourmont French Poet
• Rene Descartes French Philosopher, Mathematician
• Rene Dubos
• Reshad Feild
• Rev. Dale Turner
• Reynolds Price American Novelist
• Richard Bach American Novelist
• Richard Branson British Entrepreneur
• Richard Brinsley Sheridan Irish-born British Playwright
• Richard Burton Welsh Actor
• Richard Carlson American Actor
• Richard Cecil
• Richard Chenevix Trench Irish Anglican Clergyman
• Richard Cobden
• Richard de Bury
• Richard DeVos American Businessperson
• Richard Evelyn Byrd American Aviator
• Richard Exley
• Richard Feynman American Physicist
• Richard G. Scott American Mormon Religious Leader
• Richard Hooker English Anglican Priest
• Richard J. Needham Canadian Humorist
• Richard K. Payne American Buddhist Theologian, Author
• Richard L. Evans American Mormon Religions Leader
• Richard Livingstone British Scholar
• Richard Nixon American Head of State
• Richard Sapir American Novelist
• Richard Thalheimer American Entrepreneur
• Richard Wagner
• Richard Whately
• Richard Wright American Novelist, Short-Story Writer
• Rita Mae Brown American Writer, Feminist
• Rob Gilbert
• Rob Niemeyer
• Robert A. Heinlein American Novelist
• Robert Altman
• Robert Anton Wilson American Polymath
• Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell British Military Leader
• Robert Bolton English Clergyman
• Robert Brault
• Robert Bresson
• Robert Browning English Poet
• Robert Burns Scottish Poet
• Robert Cialdini
• Robert Collier American Self-Help Author
• Robert Cooper
• Robert De Niro American Actor
• Robert E. Lee American Military Leader
• Robert F. Kennedy American Politician
• Robert Frost American Poet
• Robert Fulghum American Unitarian Universalist Author
• Robert G. Ingersoll American Atheist Politician
• Robert H. Goddard American Inventor
• Robert H. Schuller
• Robert H. Shaffer American Educator
• Robert Half
• Robert Henri American Painter
• Robert J. Shiller
• Robert Kiyosaki American Businessperson
• Robert Louis Stevenson Scottish Novelist
• Robert M. Pirsig American Writer
• Robert Maynard Hutchins American Educator
• Robert Montgomery
• Robert Muller
• Robert Musil Austrian Novelist
• Robert Nardelli
• Robert Owen British Social Reformer
• Robert Penn Warren American Poet
• Robert Quillen American Journalist
• Robert R. Updegraff
• Robert Reich
• Robert Ringer American Entrepreneur
• Robert S. Johnson American Military Leader
• Robert South English Theologian
• Robert Thurman American Buddhist Scholar
• Robert W. Service Scottish Poet
• Roberto Goizueta Cuban Businessperson
• Robertson Davies Canada Journalist
• Robin Morgan American Activist
• Robin Sharma Canadian Writer, Motivational Speaker
• Robin Williams American Actor
• Rod McKuen
• Rodney Dangerfield American Comedian
• Roger Babson American Entre
• Roger Bacon English Philosopher
• Roger Bannister
• Roger McDonald Australian Novelist
• Roland Barthes French Literary Theorist
• Rollo May American Philosopher
• Romain Gary French Diplomat
• Roman Abramovich
• Roman Polanski French Film Director
• Ronald E. Osborn
• Ronald Reagan American Head of State
• Rosa Parks American Civil Rights Leader
• Rosalia de Castro
• Rosalynn Carter
• Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy American Philanthropist
• Ross Perot American Businessman
• Rossiter W. Raymond American Polymath
• Roy E. Moody
• Roy R. Gilson
• Rudolf Bing
• Rudy Giuliani American Politician
• Rudyard Kipling British Children’s Books Writer
• Rupert Hughes American Historian
• Russ Walden
• Russell Conwell American Baptist Minister
• Russell Hoban American Children’s Books Writer
• Russell Lynes American Art Historian
• Russell Simmons American Entrepreneur
• Russian Proverb
• Ruth B. Wright
• Ruth Ross
• Ruth Westheimer
• Rutherford B. Hayes
• Rutherford D. Rogers
• Ryan Holiday

S

• S. G. Tallentyre (Evelyn Beatrice Hall)
• S. I. Hayakawa Canadian-born American Academic
• S. J. Perelman American Humorist
• S. N. Tandon
• S. W. Straus American Banker, Philanthropist
• Sa’Di (Musharrif Od-Din Muslih Od-Din) Persian Poet
• Sacha Guitry French Theater Personality
• Saint Francis of Assisi Italian Monk
• Saint Peter Roman Catholic Saint
• Saki (Hector Hugh Munro) British Short Story Writer
• Sakya Pandita
• Sakyong Mipham Tibetan Buddhist Religious Leader
• Salman Rushdie Indian-born British Novelist
• Salvador Dali Spanish Painter
• Salvatore Satta
• Sam Ewing American Sportsperson
• Sam Keen
• Sam Levenson American Humorist
• Sam Shoemaker American Episcopal Priest
• Sam Walton American Entrepreneur
• Sammy Davis, Jr. American Singer
• Samuel Beckett Irish Novelist, Playwright
• Samuel Butler
• Samuel Dickey Gordon
• Samuel Goldwyn Polish-born American Film Producer
• Samuel Johnson British Essayist
• Samuel Lover Irish Songwriter
• Samuel Richardson English Novelist
• Samuel Rutherford Scottish Presbyterian Theologian
• Samuel S. Montague
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge English Poet
• Samyutta Nikaya
• Sandra Boynton American Humorist
• Sandra Bullock American Actor
• Sandra Carey
• Sandra Day O’Connor
• Sanford I. Weill
• Sanhedrin
• Santha Rama Rau Indian-American Novelist, Travel Writer
• Sappho Greek Poet
• Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot American Sociologist
• Sarah Ban Breathnach
• Sarah Bernhardt French Actress
• Sarah Orne Jewett American Children’s Books Writer
• Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Indian Philosopher, Political Leader
• Satchel Paige
• Sathya Sai Baba Indian Hindu Religious Leader
• Saul Bellow Canadian-born American Novelist
• Scott Adams American Cartoonist
• Scottish Proverb
• Scudder Parker American Minister
• Seamus Heaney Irish Poet, Playwright
• Sean Connery Scottish Actor
• Sean O’Casey
• Seneca the Elder (Marcus Annaeus Seneca) Roman Rhetorician
• Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) Roman Philosopher
• Seth Godin American Entrepreneur
• Seth Klarman American Investor
• Shakti Gawain American Author
• Shana Alexander American Journalist
• Shantideva Indian Buddhist Scholar
• Shaquille O’Neal American Sportsperson
• Sharon Anderson-Gold
• Sharon Salzberg American Buddhist Teacher
• Sharon Stone American Actor
• Shel Silverstein American Children’s Books Writer
• Sheri L. Dew American Mormon Children’s Books Writer
• Sheridan Le Fanu Irish Novelist
• Sherman Alexie
• Sherwood Anderson
• Shirley MacLaine American Actor
• Shoshana Zuboff
• Shunryu Suzuki
• Sicilian Proverb
• Sidney Madwed American Poet, Author, Public Speaker
• Sidney Sheldon American Novelist, Screenwriter
• Siegfried Sassoon English Poet, Writer, Soldier
• Sigmund Freud Austrian Psychiatrist
• Simon & Garfunkel
• Simone de Beauvoir French Philosopher
• Simone Weil French Philosopher, Political Activist
• Sinclair Lewis
• Sir Thomas Buxton, 1st Baronet English Politician
• Sister Nivedita Irish-born Indian Social Worker
• Sivananda Saraswati
• Sivaya Subramuniyaswami American Hindu Teacher
• Sloan Wilson American Novelist
• Smiley Blanton
• Socrates Anceient Greek Philosopher
• Soichiro Honda Japanese Inventor
• Solomon Short
• Somalian Proverb
• Song of Solomon
• Soong Mei-ling Taiwanese First Lady
• Sophia Loren Italian Actor
• Sophie Swetchine Russian Christian Mystic
• Sophocles Ancient Greek Dramatist
• Soren Kierkegaard Danish Philosopher, Theologian
• Spanish Proverb
• Sri Aurobindo Indian Hindu Nationalist
• Sri Chinmoy Indian Yoga Teacher, Writer
• Stan Randall Canadian Businessperson
• Stanislas de Boufflers French Political leader
• Stanley J. Sarnoff American Surgeon
• Stanley Kubrick American Film Director
• Steffi Graf
• Stella Isaacs, Marchioness of Reading British Political leader
• Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle) French Writer
• Stephane Hessel French Diplomat, Writer, Concentration Camp Surviv
• Stephen Batchelor British Buddhist Author, Teacher
• Stephen Covey American Management Consultant
• Stephen Harper
• Stephen Hawking English Theoretical Physicist
• Stephen Jay Gould American Paleontology
• Stephen King American Novelist
• Stephen Leacock
• Stephen Samuel Wise American Jewish Rabbi
• Stephen Sondheim American Musician
• Stephen Vincent Benet
• Stephen Vizinczey Hungarian-born Canadian Novelist
• Sterling W. Sill American Mormon Religious Leader
• Steve Ballmer American Businessperson, Philantropist
• Steve Chandler
• Steve Goodier
• Steve Henderson
• Steve Jobs American Entrepreneur
• Steve Young
• Steven Callahan
• Steven Spielberg American Film Director
• Steven Wright American Comedian
• Stevie Wonder American Singer
• Stewart B. Johnson
• Stewart Brand American Writer
• Stewart Udall American Politician
• Stuart Chase American Economist
• Subhashita Manjari
• Subramanya Bharathi Indian Hindu Poet
• Sue Atchley Ebaugh
• Sun Tzu Chinese Military Leader
• Susan B. Anthony American Civil Rights Leader
• Susan Jeffers
• Susan Sontag American Writer, Philosopher
• Susanna Clark
• Swami Chinmayananda Indian Hindu Teacher
• Swami Krishnananda
• Swami Nirmalananda
• Swami Vivekananda Indian Hindu Mystic
• Swedish Proverb
• Sydney J. Harris American Journalist
• Sydney Smith English Anglican Writer
• Sylvester Stallone American Actor
• Sylvia Porter
• Sylvia Robinson

T

• T. E. Lawrence British Military Leader
• T. Harv Eker American Motivational Speaker
• T. S. Eliot American-born British Poet
• T.N. Narasimhan Indian-American Academic
• Tacitus Roman Political leader
• Taiichi Ohno Japanese Manufacturing Engineer
• Taisen Deshimaru Japanese Buddhist Teacher
• Tallulah Bankhead American Actor
• Tancred
• Tanizaki Jun’ichiro Japanese Novelist
• Ted Engstrom American Christian Religious Leader
• Ted Turner American Businessperson
• Ted Williams American Sportsperson
• Tennessee Williams American Playwright
• Terence Ancient Roman Playwright
• Teresa of Avila Spanish Carmelite Nun, Mystic
• Terri Guillemets
• Terry Eagleton
• Thaddeus Golas
• Thales of Miletus Greek Philosopher, Mathematician
• The 14th Dalai Lama Tibetan Buddhist Religious Leader
• The Bhagavad Gita Hindu Scripture
• The Dhammapada Buddhist Anthology of Verses
• The Guru Granth Sahib Sacred Text of Sikhism
• The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith
• The Holy Quran Sacred Scripture of Islam
• The Jataka Tales Genre of Buddhist Literature
• The Mahabharata Hindu Religious Text
• The Rigveda
• The Talmud Sacred Text of the Jewish Faith
• The Upanishads
• Theodor Seuss Geisel (‘Dr. Seuss’) American Children’s Books Writer
• Theodore Dreiser American Novelist, Journalist
• Theodore H. White American Journalist
• Theodore Hesburgh American Catholic Educator
• Theodore Isaac Rubin American Psychiatrist
• Theodore L. Cuyler American Presbyterian Clergyman
• Theodore Newton Vail
• Theodore Roethke American Poet
• Theodore Roosevelt American Head of State
• Thich Nhat Hanh Vietnamese Buddhist Religious Leader
• Thirukkural
• Thomas A Kempis
• Thomas Aquinas Italian Catholic Priest
• Thomas Arnold
• Thomas Bailey Aldrich American Poet
• Thomas Brackett Reed American Politician
• Thomas Brooks
• Thomas Browne English Christian Author
• Thomas Carlyle Scottish Writer
• Thomas Chandler Haliburton Canadian Author
• Thomas de Quincey English Essayist
• Thomas De Witt Talmage American Presbyterian Clergyman
• Thomas Dekker
• Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar Scottish Businessperson
• Thomas Edison American Inventor
• Thomas Fuller English Religious Leader
• Thomas Gray
• Thomas Hardy English Novelist, Poet
• Thomas Henry Huxley English Biologist
• Thomas Hobbes
• Thomas J. Watson American Businessperson
• Thomas Jefferson American Head of State
• Thomas Jones
• Thomas L. Holdcroft
• Thomas L. Odem, Jr.
• Thomas Love Peacock English Satirist
• Thomas Mann German Novelist
• Thomas Masson American Journalist
• Thomas Merton French-born American Clergyman
• Thomas Morell
• Thomas N. Carruthers
• Thomas P. Murphy
• Thomas Paine American Nationalist
• Thomas Reid Scottish Philosopher
• Thomas S. Monson American Mormon Religious Leader
• Thomas Starr King American Unitarian Minister
• Thomas Szasz Hungarian Psychiatrist
• Thomas Tusser
• Thomas Wentworth Higginson American Unitarian Minister
• Thomas Wolfe
• Thornton Wilder American Novelist
• Thubten Zopa Rinpoche Tibetan Buddhist Lama
• Thucydides
• Tibetan Proverb
• Tiger Woods American Sportsperson
• Tilda Swinton British Actor
• Tim Ferriss
• Tim Robbins
• Tim Wiley
• Timothy Leary American Psychologist
• Tobias Smollett Scottish Poet
• Tom Bradley
• Tom Hanks
• Tom Hopkins English Sportsperson
• Tom Landry American Sportsperson
• Tom Morris
• Tom Peters American Management Consultant
• Tom Petty
• Tom Wilson
• Tommy Lasorda
• Tommy Lee Jones
• Tommy Prothro American Sportsperson
• Tonbo
• Toni Morrison American Novelist
• Tony Alessandra
• Tony Blair British Statesman
• Tony Dorsett
• Tony Robbins American Actor Author
• Townsend Harris
• Truman Capote
• Tryon Edwards American Theologian
• Tsunesaburo Makiguchi Japanese Buddhist Religious Leader
• Tukaram Indian Hindu Poet
• Tulsidas Indian Hindu Composer
• Tupac Shakur American Musician
• Turkish Proverb
• TV: The Wonder Years
• Tyra Banks American Model

U

• U.S. Proverb
• Ulysses S. Grant American Head of State
• Unknown
• Ursula K. Le Guin Science-fiction writer

V

• V. S. Pritchett British Short Story Writer
• Van Morrison
• Van Wyck Brooks American Literary Critic
• Venus Williams
• Vernon Howard
• Vernon Luchies American Clergyman
• Victor Borge
• Victor Hugo French Novelist
• Victor Kiam American Entrepreneur
• Vidal Sassoon
• Vietnamese Proverb
• Viggo Mortensen
• Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit Indian Diplomat
• Viktor Frankl Austrian Physician
• Vilayat Inayat Khan British Sufi Mystic
• Vince Lombardi American Sportsperson
• Vince Lombardi, Jr.
• Vincent de Paul French Catholic Saint
• Vincent van Gogh Dutch Painter
• Virgil Roman Poet
• Virginia Woolf English Novelist
• Vita Sackville-West English Gardener
• Vittorio Alfieri Italian Dramatist
• Vladimir Horowitz Russian-born American Musician
• Vladimir Lenin Russian Revolutionary Leader
• Vladimir Nabokov Russian-born American Novelist
• Voltaire French Philosopher

W

• W. B. Prescott
• W. C. Fields American Actor
• W. Clement Stone American Businessperson
• W. E. B. Du Bois American Civil Rights Activist
• W. Edwards Deming
• W. H. Auden British-born American Poet
• W. J. Davison
• W. O. Mitchell Canadian Novelist
• W. S. Gilbert English Dramatist
• W. Somerset Maugham French Playwright
• W. W. Ziege
• Wallace Stevens American Poet
• Wallace Wattles American New Thought Author
• Wally Amos
• Walt Disney American Entrepreneur
• Walt Kelly
• Walt Whitman American Poet
• Walter Anderson
• Walter Bagehot English Businessperson
• Walter Chrysler
• Walter D. Wintle American Poet
• Walter Lippmann American Journalist
• Walter Reuther
• Walter Savage Landor English Writer
• Walter Scott Scottish Novelist
• Walter Wriston
• Wang Yangming
• Warren Beatty
• Warren Bennis American Scholar
• Warren Buffett American Investor
• Warren Farrell American Educator, Activist
• Warren G. Harding American Head of State
• Washington Allston American Poet
• Washington Irving American Author
• Watts Humphrey American Software Engineer
• Wayne Dyer American Motivational Writer
• Wayne Gretzky Canadian Sportsperson
• Welsh Proverb
• Wendell Phillips American Abolitionist
• Wendell Willkie American Politician
• Werner Heisenberg German Theoretical Physicist
• Wernher von Braun German-born American Engineer
• Wess Roberts
• Westbrook Pegler
• Whitney Young American Civil Rights Leader
• Whoopi Goldberg American Comedian
• Wilferd Arlan Peterson American Author
• Wilfred Grenfell Canadian Humanitarian
• Wilhelm Reich
• Wilhelm Stekel Austrian Physician
• Wilhelm von Humboldt German Philosopher
• Will Durant American Historian
• Will Rogers American Actor
• Will Smith American Actor
• Willa Cather American Novelist
• William Allen White American Editor
• William Arthur Ward American Author
• William Bennett American Politician
• William Bernbach
• William Blackstone English Judge
• William Blake English Poet
• William Buechner American Nuclear Physicist
• William Butler Yeats Irish Poet
• William C. deMille American Screenwriter
• William C. Durant American Entrepreneur
• William Carlos Williams American Pediatrician
• William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley English Political leader
• William Congreve English Playwright
• William Cowper English Anglican Poet
• William Croswell Doane American Anglican Hymn writer
• William D. Hoard American Elected Rep
• William Dean Howells American Novelist
• William Ellery Channing
• William Ernest Henley English Poet
• William Eugene Drummond American Architect
• William Ewart Gladstone British Head of State
• William F. Buckley, Jr. American TV Personality
• William F. Fry, Jr.
• William F. Scolavino
• William Faulkner American Novelist
• William Feather American Publisher
• William Gaines
• William George Jordan American Essayist
• William Gilmore Simms American Poet
• William Glasser American Psychiatrist
• William Graham Sumner American Polymath
• William H. Gass American Short Story Writer
• William H. Seward American Elected Representative
• William Hazlitt English Essayist
• William Hewlett American Engineer, Businessperson
• William Hogarth English Painter
• William Howard Arnold
• William Howard Stein
• William Hutchinson Murray
• William J. H. Boetcker American Presbyterian Religious Leader
• William James American Philosopher
• William Jennings Bryan American Political leader
• William Laurence Sullivan American Unitarian Clergyman
• William Law
• William Lawrence Bragg
• William Lonsdale Watkinson
• William Lyon Phelps American Author
• William Macneile Dixon
• William Makepeace Thackeray English Novelist
• William Mather British Businessperson
• William Mather Lewis
• William McFee
• William McKinley American Head of State
• William Morris English Textile Designer
• William Motter Inge American Playwright
• William Mulock
• William O. Douglas American Judge
• William of Ockham English Philosopher
• William Osler Canadian Physician
• William P. Merrill
• William Penn American Entrepreneur
• William Ralph Inge English Anglican Clergyman
• William S. Burroughs American Novelist
• William Safire American Columnist
• William Saroyan American Novelist
• William Shakespeare British Playwright
• William Shenstone English Poet
• William Sloane Coffin American Presbyterian Clergyman
• William Styron American Novelist
• William Tecumseh Sherman American Military Leader
• William Temple
• William Watson Purkey
• William Wharton
• William Winter
• William Wordsworth English Poet
• William Wycherley English Dramatist
• Willie Davis
• Willis R. Whitney American Chemist
• Wilma Askinas
• Wilson Mizner American Playwright
• Wilt Chamberlain American Sportsperson
• Winifred Carriere
• Winston Churchill British Head of State
• Witter Bynner American Poet
• Woodrow Wilson American Head of State
• Woody Allen American Actor
• Woody Hayes American Sportsperson

X

• Xenocrates Ancient Greek Philosopher
• Xenophon Ancient Greek Philosopher

Y

• Yasunari Kawabata Japanese Novelist, Short Story Writer
• Yiddish Proverb
• Yoda
• Yogaswami of Jaffna Sri Lankan Hindu Religious Leader
• Yogi Berra American Sportsperson
• Yoko Ono Japanese Artist
• Yoshida Kenko

Z

• Zeami Motokiyo Japanese Playwright
• Zelda Fitzgerald American Novelist
• Zen Proverb Japanese School of Mahayana Buddhism
• Zeno of Citium
• Zeus
• Zhuang Zhou Chinese Philosopher
• Zig Ziglar American Author
• Ziggy
• Zoltan Kodaly
• Zoroaster