A
- A. A. Milne English Children’s Books Writer
- A. Alfred Taubman American Businessman
- A. C. Benson English Essayist
- A. E. Housman British Poet, Scholar
- 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
- Abbie Hoffman
- 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
- 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
- Aimee P. Guam
- Akbarali H. Jetha Indian Author
- Akhenaten Egyptian Monarch
- Akio Morita Japanese Entrepreneur, Engineer
- Akira Kurosawa Japanese Film Director
- Alan Alda American Actor
- Alan Ashley-Pitt
- 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, Mystic
- Alexander Graham Bell Scottish-born American Inventor
- 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 Dunhill
- Alfred Hitchcock British-born American Film Director
- Alfred Korzybski Polish-born American Philosopher
- Alfred North Whitehead English Mathematician
- Alfred Whitney Griswold American Historian, Educator
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson British Poet
- Algernon Charles Swinburne English Poet
- Alice Walker
- Alison Rose Levy
- Allan K. Chalmers
- Allen Klein American Businessperson
- Alphonse de Lamartine French Writer, Poet
- Alvin Toffler
- Amanda Bradley
- Amar Bose American Entrepreneur
- Ambrose Bierce American Editor
- Ambrose Redmoon
- Amelia Earhart American Aviator
- Amish saying
- 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, Judge
- Andrew Law
- Andrew Marvell English Poet
- Andrew Mason
- Andrew Schneider
- Andy Rooney American Writer, Humorist
- 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, Novelist
- 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 Aviator
- Anne Sullivan Macy American Educator
- Annie Besant British-born Indian Theosophist
- Annie Dillard
- Annie Leibovitz American Photographer
- Anonymous
- Anthony de Mello Indian-born American Theologian
- Anthony J. D’Angelo
- Anthony Powell English Novelist, Memoirist
- Anthony Trollope English Novelist
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- 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
- Archilochus
- Aristophanes Greek Comic Playwright
- Aristotle Ancient Greek Philosopher
- Aristotle Onassis Greek Businessperson
- Arlene Blum
- Arlo Guthrie American Singer, Songwriter
- Armand Hammer
- Arnold Bennett British Novelist
- Arnold Glasow American Businessman
- Arnold H. Glasgow
- Arnold J. Toynbee British Historian
- Arnold Palmer American Sportsperson
- Arnold Schwarzenegger Austrian-born American Actor
- Arthur Ashe American Sportsperson
- Arthur Brisbane American Journalist, Editor
- Arthur C. Clarke British Author
- Arthur Calwell
- Arthur Conan Doyle English Novelist
- Arthur Eddington English Astrophysicist
- Arthur Gordon
- Arthur Helps English Dramatist, Essayist
- Arthur Henry Hallam
- Arthur Koestler
- Arthur Miller American Playwright
- Arthur Rimbaud French Poet
- Arthur Rubinstein Polish-born American Composer
- Arthur Schopenhauer German Philosopher
- Arthur Sherburne Hardy American Engineer, Educator
- Arthur W. Newcomb
- Arthur Warwick
- Arthur Wing Pinero English Actor, Dramatist
- Ashleigh
- Ashleigh Brilliant British Cartoonist, Author
- Ashley Montagu
- Ask Ann Landers
- Athenaeus
- Aubrey De Vere
- Audrey Hepburn Belgian-born British Actor
- August Strindberg Swedish Playwright
- August Wilhelm Schlegel
- Auguste Rodin French Sculptor
- Augustine Birrell English Politician, Barrister
- Augustine of Hippo Roman-African Christian Philosopher
- Aung San Suu Kyi
- Ausonius Latin Poet
- 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
- Bahya ibn Paquda Spanish Jewish Philosopher
- Baltasar Gracian
- Barack Obama American Head of State
- Barbara Bush American First Lady
- Barbara De Angelis American Lecturer
- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison American Journalist
- Barbara Kingsolver American Novelist
- Barbra Streisand American Musician
- Barry Goldwater American Elected Representative
- Barry Jones
- Baruch Spinoza Dutch Philosopher
- Basava Indian Hindu Philosopher
- Bayard Taylor American Poet, Literary Critic
- Bear Bryant American Sportsperson
- Becky Stanford
- Bede Jarrett
- Beilby Porteus English Anglican Reformer
- Ben Casnocha American Entrepreneur, Investor
- Ben Hecht
- Ben Irwin
- Ben Jonson English Dramatist
- Ben Stein American Lawyer, Writer
- 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, Writer
- Benjamin Jowett
- Benjamin Mays American Minister
- Benjamin Whichcote British Anglican Priest
- Bergen Evans
- Bern Williams
- 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
- Berthold Auerbach German Jewish Poet, Novelist
- Bertolt Brecht German Poet
- Bertrand A. Russell British Philosopher
- Beryl Bainbridge British Novelist
- Beryl Markham British-born Kenyan Aviator
- Bessie Anderson Stanley American Poet
- Bette Midler American Singer, Actor
- 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, Author
- Bill Clinton American Head of State
- Bill Cosby American Actor
- Bill Gates American Businessperson
- Bill Joy American Computer Scientist
- Bill Keane
- Bill Maher American Comedian TV Personality
- Bill Messing
- Bill Taylor
- Bill Veeck American Sportsperson
- Billie Holiday
- Billie Jean King American Sportsperson
- Billy Graham American Baptist Religious Leader
- Billy Joel American Singer
- Bits and Pieces
- Blaise Pascal French Catholic Mathematician
- Blessing Onuoha
- 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
- Bonar Thompson
- Bonaventure Italian Christian Scholar
- Booker T. Washington American Educator
- Booth Tarkington American Novelist, Dramatist
- Bosnian Proverb
- Brad Feld American Entrepreneur, Investor
- Brad Pitt American Actor
- Brandon Moore
- Brenda Ueland American Journalist, Editor
- Brendan Behan Irish Poet
- Brian Aldiss English Novelist
- Brian Tracy American Author
- Brigham Young American Mormon Religious Leader
- Brigitte Bardot French Film Star
- Brother Lawrence French Carmelite Monk, Writer
- Bruce Fairchild Barton
- Bruce Feirstein
- Bruce Jenner American Sportsperson
- Bruce Lee Hong-Kong-born American Sportsperson
- Bruce Levin
- Bruno Bettelheim Austrian-born American Psychologist
- Buckminster Fuller American Engineer
- 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, Scholar
- C. P. Scott British Publisher, Journalist
- C. P. Snow
- C. S. Lewis Irish-born British Children’s Books Writer
- C. William Pollard American Businessman, Author
- Caitlyn
- Calvin Coolidge American Head of State
- Cao Xueqin Chinese Writer
- Carey Williams
- Carl Anton Ewald
- Carl Bard
- 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
- Carmelia Elliott
- Carol Bartz American Businesswoman
- 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
- Catherine Deneuve French Actor
- Catherine II of Russia Russian Empress
- Catherine of Siena Italian Philosopher
- Catherine Smith
- 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, Writer
- Cesare Pavese
- Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari
- Chanakya Neeti
- Charles B. Goranson
- 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, Novelist
- 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, Writer
- Charles Frederic Dubois
- Charles G. Dawes American Head of State
- 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, Explorer
- Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) British Anglican Author
- Charles Lynch
- Charles M. Schulz American Cartoonist, Writer
- 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 Brower
- 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
- Chilo
- 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
- Christian Saying
- Christina Rossetti English Poet
- Christina, Queen of Sweden Swedish Monarch
- Christine Huppert
- Christopher Hitchens Anglo-American Essayist, Social Critic
- Christopher Lasch American Historian, Moralist
- Christopher Marlowe English Playwright
- Christopher Morley American Journalist
- Chrysler
- Chuck Swindoll American Christian Pastor
- Cicero Roman Philosopher
- Citium Zeno
- Clare Boothe Luce American Playwright
- Clarence Darrow American Lawyer
- Clarence Day American Memoirist
- Clarence Francis American Businessperson
- Clarendon
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
- Claude Bernard French Physiology, Academic
- Claude Debussy French Composer, Musician
- 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, Poet, Actor
- Common Proverb
- Confucius Chinese Philosopher
- Connie Zweig American Minister, Columnist
- Conrad Hilton American Business Person
- Constantin Stanislavski Russian Actor
- Constantine P. Cavafy Egyptian Greek Poet, Journalist, Civil Servant
- Conyers Middleton English Clergyman, Theologian
- Cookie Lavagetto American Sportsperson
- Corita Kent American Artist
- Cornelia Otis Skinner American Dramatist, Actor
- Corrie Ten Boom Dutch Jewish Humanist
- Cort R. Flint
- Coventry Patmore English Poet, Critic
- Crawford Greenewalt American Engineer
- Cullen Hightower American Humorist
- Cynthia Ozick
D
- D. H. Lawrence English Novelist
- D. T. Suzuki Japanese Buddhist Philosopher
- 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
- Daniel Defoe English Writer
- Daniel J. Boorstin American Historian, Academic
- Daniel Kahneman American-Israeli Psychologist, Economist
- Daniel Webster American Elected Representative
- Danish Proverb
- Danny Kaye American Actor
- Dante Alighieri Italian Political leader
- 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 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. Piper
- David Rockefeller American Philanthropist
- David Ryan
- David Sarnoff American Sportsperson
- David Seabury
- David Seltzer American Screenwriter
- David Starr Jordan American Zoologist
- David Viscott American Psychiatrist
- David W. Johnson
- David Whyte
- Davy Crockett
- 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 Wholey
- Derek Sivers American Entrepreneur
- Dero A. Saunders American Journalist, Scholar
- Derrick Foss
- 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
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer German Lutheran Pastor
- Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Tibetan Buddhist Religious Leader
- Dinah Craik English Novelist
- Dinah Shore
- Dodie Smith British Novelist, Playwright
- Domenico Cieri Mexican Writer
- Don Herold American Humorist
- Don Juan DeMarco
- Don Marquis American Humorist
- Don Ward
- Don Wilder
- Donald Riggs American Academic
- Donald Trump American Businessperson, Head of State
- Donald Williams
- Doris Lessing British Novelist, Poet
- Dorothea Brande American Writer
- Dorothee Luzy Dotinville French Dancer, Actress
- Dorothy Dix American Journalist, Columnist
- Dorothy Galyean
- Dorothy L. Sayers British Novelist, Playwright
- Dorothy Parker American Poet
- Dorothy Thompson American Journalist
- Doug Larson
- Doug Williams
- Douglas MacArthur American Military Leader
- Douglas William Jerrold English Dramatist
- Drew Barrymore American Actor
- Duane Alan Hahn
- Duke Ellington
- Dustin Hoffman American Actor, TV Personality
- 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. L. Doctorow American Writer, Editor
- E. Lamar Kincaid American Protestant Minister
- E. M. Forster English Novelist
- E. M. McKee
- E. Merrill Root American Educator
- E. O. Wilson American Naturalist, Biologist
- E. Stanley Jones American Methodist Priest
- E. V. Lucas English Author, Historian
- E. W. Howe American Novelist
- Earl Nightingale American Motivational Speaker
- Earl of Chesterfield
- Earl Warren American Judge, Politician
- Earl Wilson
- Eastern Proverb
- Eastern Saying
- Eckhart Tolle German Spiritual Writer
- 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, Biographer
- 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 St. Vincent Millay American Poet, Playwright
- 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, Novelist
- Edward Howard Griggs
- Edward Keating
- Edward L. Curtis
- Edward Lear
- Edward McKendree Bounds American Methodist Clergyman
- 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
- Effie Jones
- Egyptian Proverb
- Elbert Hubbard American Writer
- Eldridge Cleaver
- Eleanor Roosevelt American First Lady
- Eleonora Duse
- 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, Memoirist
- Elizabeth I of England British Monarch
- Elizabeth Prentiss American Children’s Books Writer
- Elizabeth Taylor English Actor, Activist
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox American Poet
- Ellen DeGeneres American Comedian, Television Host
- Ellen Glasgow American Novelist
- Ellen Hubbard
- Elliot Richardson American Lawyer
- Elsie Robinson
- Elvis Presley American Musician
- 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-American Psychologist
- Ernest Hemingway American Author
- Ernest Holmes American New Thought Writer
- Erwin Rommel German Military Leader
- Ethan Daniel
- Ethel Merman American Actor
- Etty Hillesum Dutch Diarist, Holocaust Victim
- 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, Humorist
- Ezra Bayda
- Ezra Pound
- Ezra Taft Benson American Mormon Religious Leader
F
- F. H. Bradley British Philosopher
- F. Hawes
- F. L. Lucas English Literary Critic
- F. M. Lehman
- F. Matthias Alexander Australian Actor
- F. Scott Fitzgerald American Novelist
- Fannie Flagg
- Federico Fellini Italian Film Director
- Federico Garcia Lorca Spanish Poet
- Felix Frankfurter American Judge
- Ferris Bueller
- Finley Peter Dunne American Author
- Flannery O’Connor American Novelist
- Flora Whittemore
- Florence Nightingale English Nurse
- Florynce Kennedy American Lawyer
- Fo-sho-hing-tsan-king
- Ford Madox Ford
- Forrest Gump
- 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 Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Scottish Judge, Literary Critic
- Francis Kelley
- Francis Marion Crawford Italian-born American Novelist
- Francis Quarles English Poet
- Francis Schaeffer American Presbyterian Leader
- Francis Thompson English Poet, Ascetic
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Francois Rabelais French Humanist, Satirist
- Frank A. Clark
- Frank A. Garbutt American Inventor, Movie Pioneer
- Frank Abagnale American Fraudster
- Frank Hall Crane
- Frank Lane American Sportsperson
- Frank Lloyd Wright America Architect
- Frank Moore Colby American Educator
- Frank Newman
- 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, Playwright
- Franz Kafka Austrian Novelist
- Fred Allen American Humorist
- Fred Astaire American Actor, Film Personality
- Fred Shero
- Fred Waggoner
- 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 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 Schiller German Poet
- Fulton J. Sheen American Catholic Religious Leader
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky Russian Novelist
G
- G. B. Burgin
- G. K. Chesterton English Journalist
- G. S. Merriam
- Gabriel A. Bankes
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Colombian Novelist, Short-Story Writer
- Gail Godwin American Novelist
- Gail Sheehy American Journalist
- Galileo Galilei Italian Astronomer
- Garrison Keillor American Author, Humorist
- Gary Ryan Blair
- Gary Sinise
- Gaston Bachelard French Philosopher
- Gelett Burgess
- Gene Wolfe
- Geoffrey Chaucer English Poet
- Geoffrey Moss
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg German Scientist
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- George Augustus Henry Sala British Journalist
- George Bernard Shaw Irish Playwright
- George Boardman American Baptist Minister
- George Borrow English Novelist, Author
- George Burns
- George Bush
- George C. Lorimer American Baptist Clergyman
- George Crabbe
- George D. Prentice American Journalist
- George E. Allen American Sportsperson
- George Edward Woodberry American Literary Critic, Poet
- 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, Editor
- 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 Orwell English Novelist, Essayist, Journalist
- George P. Putnam
- George P. Shultz American Economist
- George Peabody American Financier
- George Perera, MD
- George Reeves
- George S. Patton American Military Leader
- George Samuel Clason American Businessperson, Author
- George Sand
- George Santayana Spanish Philosopher
- George Soros American Investor
- George W. Bush American Head of State
- George W. Crane American Psychologist
- George Washington American Head of State
- George Washington Carver American Scientist
- George Will American Columnist
- George William Curtis American Essayist
- George William Russell Irish Author, Poet
- George Wilshere, 1st Baron Bramwell English Judge
- Georges Bataille French Philosopher, Writer
- Georges Bernanos French Author
- Georges Braque French Painter, Artist
- Georges Clemenceau French Head of State, Physician
- Georges Gurdjieff Armenian Philosopher
- Gerald Ford American Head of State
- Gerald Jampolsky
- Gerard de Nerval
- Gerard Hargraves
- Gerhard Kocher Swiss Publicist, Health Economist, Aphorist
- Germaine Greer Australia Academic, Journalist
- German Proverb
- Gertrude Stein American Writer
- Giacomo Leopardi Italian Poet, Essayist
- Gian Carlo Menotti Italian-born American Composer
- Gil Figaro, Sr
- Gilda Radner
- Giovanni Boccaccio Italian Writer, Poet
- 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
- Golnik Eric
- Gordie Howe American Sportsperson
- Gordon B. Hinckley American Mormon Religious Leader
- Gore Vidal American Novelist
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- Grace Hopper
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- Grandma Moses American Painter
- Greek Proverb
- Grenville Kleiser Canadian Author
- Groucho Marx American Actor
- Guan Yin Tzu
- Guillaume Apollinaire Italian-born French Poet
- Gunter Grass German Novelist, Poet
- Gustave Flaubert French Novelist
- Guy de Maupassant French Novelist
- Guy Debord
- Guy Kawasaki American Investor
H
- H. G. Wells British Novelist
- H. Ginott
- H. H. Williams
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr. American Author
- H. L. Mencken American Journalist
- H. Norman Schwarzkopf American Military Leader
- H. S. M. Burns American Businessman
- H. Stein
- H. W. Arnold
- H. W. Lewis
- Hada Bejar
- Hafez Persian Poet
- Haitian Proverb
- Hamilton 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 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
- Harper Lee American Novelist
- Harriet Beecher Stowe American Abolitionist
- Harriet Braiker
- Harriet Martineau English Sociologist
- Harrison Ford American Actor
- Harry Browne American Politician, Investor
- Harry Emerson Fosdick American Baptist Clergyman
- Harry Houdini Hungarian-born American Magician
- Harry Lloyd
- Harry Quadracci
- Harry S. Truman American Head of State
- Hartley Coleridge English Writer, Poet
- 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
- Henny Youngman
- Henri Bergson French Philosopher
- Henri Cartier-Bresson French Photographer, Journalist
- Henri de Montherlant
- Henri Fabre French Aviator
- Henri Frederic Amiel Swiss Philosopher
- Henri Matisse
- Henri Nouwen Dutch Catholic Priest, Writer
- Henri Poincare
- Henrik Ibsen Norwegian Playwright
- Henry Adams American Journalist
- Henry Chester
- Henry Clay
- 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 Miller American Novelist
- Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke English Politician, Philosopher
- 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
- Herodotus
- Hesiod Greek Poet, Economist
- Heywood Broun American Journalist, Editor
- Heywood Hale Broun American Journalist
- Hillary Rodham Clinton American Head of State
- Hippocrates Ancient Greek Physician
- Hitopadesha
- Hodding Carter
- Holbrook Jackson British Journalist, Writer
- Homer Ancient Greek Poet
- Hong Zicheng
- Honore de Balzac French Novelist
- Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Roman Poet
- Horace Greeley American Elected Rep, Politician
- Horace Mann American Educator
- 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, Rhetorician
- Hugh Downs American TV Personality
- Hugh Miller Scottish Geologist, Writer
- Hugh Prather American Christian Author
- Hugh Walpole English Novelist
- Hugh White
- Hugo Black American Politician, Jurist
- 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 Bidwell
- 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
- Indian Proverb
- Indira Gandhi Indian Head of State
- Ingmar Bergman Swedish Film Personality
- Ingrid Bergman Swedish Actor
- Ingvar Kamprad Swedish Businessman
- Inscription at Johns Hopkins
- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
- 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 Bashevis Singer Polish-born American Children’s Books Writer
- Isaac Newton English Physicist
- Isaac Watts English Hymn writer
- Isabel Allende
- Isadora Duncan American Dancer, Choreographer
- Isha Upanishad
- Israel Zangwill British Humorist, Novelist
- Italian Proverb
- Italo Calvino Italian Journalist
- Ivan Panin
- Ivern Ball American Writer, Aphorist
J
- J. B. Priestley English Novelist, Playwright
- J. B. S. Haldane British Biologist, Geneticist
- J. Clyde Mitchell
- J. D. Salinger American Actor
- J. G. Ballard English Novelist
- J. J. Procter
- J. K. Rowling British Children’s Books Writer
- J. Laing Burns, Jr.
- J. M. Barrie Scottish Novelist
- J. Marriott Jr.
- J. P. Morgan American Businessperson
- J. P. Vaswani Indian Hindu Philosopher
- J. Paul Getty American Business Person
- J. Robert Oppenheimer American Theoretical Physicist
- J. William Fulbright American Political leader
- J.A. Shepp
- Jacinto Benavente Spanish Dramatists
- Jack Dixon
- Jack Kerouac American Novelist, Poet
- Jack Kornfield American Buddhist Teacher, Author
- Jack Nicklaus American Sportsperson
- Jack Penn South African Surgeon
- Jack Welch American Businessperson
- Jackie Gleason
- Jackie Riedel
- Jacqueline Carey American Novelist
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis American First Lady, Editor
- 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, Journalist
- James Anthony Froude British Historian
- James Baldwin
- 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 Crook
- James D. Bryden
- James D. Miles
- 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 Freeman Clarke American Unitarian Clergyman
- James Gibbons American Catholic Religious Leader
- James Grant American Writer, Publisher
- 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. Cook
- James Randolph Adams American Advertising Executive
- James Russell Lowell American Poet
- James Sharp
- James Thurber
- James Truslow Adams American Historian, Writer
- James Whitcomb Riley American Children’s Books Writer
- James X. Mullen
- James Yorke
- Jameson Frank
- 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 Q
- 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, Politician
- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Swiss Poet
- Jean Baptiste Massillon French Catholic Religious Leader
- Jean Baudrillard French Sociologist, Philosopher
- Jean Cocteau French Poet, Novelist
- Jean de La Bruyere
- Jean de La Fontaine French Poet
- Jean Giono French Novelist
- Jean Houston American New Thought Author
- 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, Journalist
- Jeannette Rankin American Social Activist
- Jeff Bezos American Businessman
- Jeffery Pfeffer, Robert Sutton
- Jeffrey David Lang
- Jeffrey Immelt American Businessperson
- Jennifer Aniston American Actress
- Jennifer Unlimited
- Jenny McCarthy American Actor
- Jeremy Collier English Anglican Theater Critic
- Jeremy Monnin
- Jeremy Taylor
- Jerome Greek Priest, Apologist, Saint
- 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
- Jianzhi Sengcan Chinese Buddhist Poet
- Jiddu Krishnamurti Indian Philosopher
- Jim Bishop American Journalist, Author
- Jim Carrey Canadian Actor, Comedian
- Jim Davis
- 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
- Jimmy Townsend
- Joan Baez American Singer
- Joan Borysenko
- Joan Collins English Actor, Author
- Joan Didion
- Joan Heywood
- Joan Rivers American Comedian
- Joe Paterno American Sportsperson
- 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
- John A. Appleman American lawyer, Encyclopedist
- John Adams American Head of State
- John B. Sheerin American Catholic Columnist, Editor
- John Berger English Art Critic, Essayist, Novelist
- John Brian-Paprock
- John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir Scottish Novelist
- John Bunyan English Christian Writer
- John C. Calhoun American Head of State
- John C. Maxwell American Christian Professional Speaker
- John Cage American Composer, Philosopher
- John Christian Bovee
- John Chrysostom Greek Christian Saint
- John Churton Collins English Literary Critic
- John Ciardi American Poet, Teacher
- 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, Dramatist
- John Greenleaf Whittier American Quaker Poet
- John H. Crowe
- John Henry Newman British Catholic Clergyman
- John Herschel English Mathematician
- John Heywood
- John Howe Canadian Artist
- John Jay Chapman American Biographer, Poet
- John Keats English Poet
- John Keble English Religious Leader
- John Kenneth Galbraith Canadian-born American Economist
- John Kotter American Academic
- John Lancaster Spalding American Catholic Clergyman
- John Lennon British Singer
- John Locke English Philosopher
- John Lubbock
- John Lyly English Dramatist, Novelist
- 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, Novelist
- John Mason Brown American Columnist, Journalist
- 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 of the Cross Spanish Roman Catholic Mystic
- John P. Grier
- John Quincy Adams American Head of State
- John Reed American Journalist, Poet
- John Roger
- John Ruskin English Art Critic
- John Steinbeck American Novelist
- John Stuart Mill British Philosopher
- John Sutherland Bonnell American Preacher
- John Thain Davidson British Presbyterian Preacher
- John Vance Cheney American Poet
- John Vianney French Catholic Priest
- John W. Gardner American Government Official
- John Wanamaker
- John Wayne American Actor, Director
- John Webster English Dramatist, Poet
- 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
- Johnny Bench American Sportsperson
- Johnny Carson
- Jon Bon Jovi American Musician
- Jonas Salk American Biologist
- Jonathan Swift Irish Satirist
- Jonathan Winters American Comedian
- Jorge Luis Borges Argentine Writer
- Joseph Addison English Essayist
- Joseph Addison Light
- 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 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, Poet
- Joyce Brothers
- Joyce Carol Oates American Novelist
- Joyce Cary Irish Novelist, Artist
- Joyce Maynard
- Juan Montalvo Ecuadorian Author
- Judith Crist
- Judith M. Knowlton
- Judith Viorst American Psychoanalyst
- Jules Renard French Novelist
- Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney American Educator
- Julianne Moore American Actor
- Julien Offray de La Mettrie French Physician
- Justine Milton
- Juvenal Roman Poet
K
- Kabbalah Teaching Jewish Mystical, Theosophical Tradition
- Kabir Indian Mystic
- Kalidasa Indian Sanskrit Poet, Dramatist
- 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
- Kate Seredy
- Kate Winslet English Actress
- Katharine Graham American Publisher
- Katharine Hepburn American Actor
- Katharine Whitehorn English Journalist, Writer
- Katherine Anne Porter American Journalist
- Katherine Mansfield New Zealander Short story
- Katherine Paterson American Novelist
- Kathrine Palmer Peterson American Author of Grief Books
- Kay Lyons
- Keith Ellis
- Keith Ferrazzi American Author
- Keith Richards English Singer, Songwriter
- Ken Blanchard American Author
- Ken Hakuta
- Ken Kesey American Novelist, Essayist
- Ken Keyes, Jr. American Motivational Speaker
- Kenneth Tynan English Theatre Critic, Writer
- Kevin M. Clear
- Khalil Gibran Lebanese-born American Philosopher
- Kimberly Johnson American Poet
- Kimon Nicolaides
- Kingsley Ward
- Kirk Douglas American Actor
- Kitte Turmell
- Klemens Wenzel, Prince von Metternich Austrian Political leader
- Knute Rockne
- Konrad Adenauer German Head of State
- Kurt Vonnegut American Novelist
- Kusan Sunim Korean Buddhist Priest
L
- L. Ron Hubbard American Scientologist Religious Leader
- L. Thomas Holdcroft
- Lady Bird Johnson American Entrepreneur
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu English Aristocrat, Poet
- Lama Thubten Yeshe Tibetan Buddhist Teacher
- Lance Armstrong
- Langston Hughes American Novelist
- Laozi Chinese Philosopher
- Larry Bird American Sportsperson
- Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan
- 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 Hope
- Laurence I. Neale
- Laurence J. Peter Canadian-born American Educator
- Laurence Olivier English Actor
- Laurence Sterne Irish Anglican Novelist
- Laurens van der Post British Political leader
- Lawrence Durrell British Biographer
- Lawrence G. Lovasik
- Learned Hand
- Led Zeppelin
- Lee Iacocca American Businessperson
- Lee Miracle
- Lee Scott
- Lemuel K. Washburn
- Len Scherder
- Lenny Bruce American Comedian, Writer
- 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
- Leonardo da Vinci Italian Polymath
- Leonardo DiCaprio American Actor
- Les Brown
- Les Giblin
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon English Poet
- Letty Cottin Pogrebin American Writer, Journalist
- 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, Academic
- Linda Ellerbee
- Linus Pauling American Chemist
- Lionel Trilling
- Lisa Kirk American Actor
- Lloyd Jones
- Lois McMaster Bujold American Novelist, Writer
- Lope de Vega Spanish Playwright, Poet
- Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) English Romantic Poet
- Lou Gerstner
- Lou Holtz
- Lou Holtz and John Heisler
- 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, Novelist
- Louis L’Amour
- Louis Leo Snyder American-born German Scholar
- Louis Nizer
- Louis Pasteur French Biologist
- Louis XIV
- 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
- Lucian
- Luciano Decrescenzo
- Luciano Pavarotti Italian Musician
- Lucille Ball American Actor
- Lucille S. Harper American Freelance Writer
- Lucretius Roman Poet, Philosopher
- Lucy Maud Montgomery Canadian Novelist, Diarists
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe German-born American Architect
- Ludwig van Beethoven German Composer
- Ludwig von Mises Austrian Economist, Philosopher
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Austrian Philosopher
- Luigi Pirandello Italian Dramatist
- Luther Burbank American Botanist, Scientist
- 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, Publisher
- M. Scott Peck American Psychiatrist
- Mack R. Douglas
- Macneile Dixon
- Madeleine Albright Czech-born American Diplomat
- Madonna American Pop Singer, Actress
- Mae Maloo
- Maggie Mahar American Journalist, Author
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Indian Hindu Religious Leader
- Mahavamsa
- Maimonides
- Malaysian Proverb
- Malcolm Bane
- Malcolm de Chazal Mauritian Writer, Painter
- Malcolm Forbes American Publisher
- Malcolm Muggeridge English Journalist
- Malcolm X American Muslim Religious Leader
- Maltbie Davenport Babcock American Presbyterian Clergyman
- Mao Zedong
- Marcel Proust French Novelist
- Marchant
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus
- Marcus Manilius Roman Poet
- Margaret Drabble English Novelist, Biographer
- Margaret Fairless Barber
- Margaret Fuller
- Margaret J. Wheatley American Management Consultant
- Margaret Laurence Canadian Novelist
- Margaret Mead American Anthropologist
- Margaret Mitchell American Author
- Margaret Thatcher British Head of State
- Margaret Walker
- Marge Piercy American Poet, Novelist
- Margot Fonteyn
- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Irish Novelist, Writer
- 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, Editor, Orator
- 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 Kennedy
- Mark McCormack
- Mark Sanborn
- Mark Twain American Humorist
- Mark Van Doren
- Mark Victor Hansen American Public Speaker
- Mark Yost
- 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 Lutheran Religious Leader
- Martin Luther King III American Human Rights Advocate
- Martin Luther King, Jr. American Civil Rights Leader
- Martin Seligman American Psychologist, Author
- 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 Religious Leader
- Mary Beth McEachron
- 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 Oliver American Poet
- Mary Pettibone Poole
- Mary Pickford
- Mary Richards
- Mary Shelley
- Mary Todd Lincoln American First Lady
- Mary Tyler Moore American Actor
- Mary Vandergrift
- Mary Webb English Novelist, Poet, Writer
- Mary Welsh Hemingway
- Mary Wollstonecraft British Children’s Books Writer
- Mary’s Almanac
- Maryanne Radmacher Hershey
- Masanobu Fukuoka Japanese Buddhist Polymath
- Masaru Ibuka Japanese Entrepreneur, Engineer
- Mastin Kipp
- Matthew Arnold
- Matthieu Ricard French Buddhist Monk
- Maureen Dowd American Columnist
- Maurice Baring
- Maurice Chevalier French Actor, Singer
- Maurice Maeterlinck Belgian Playwright
- Max Amsterdam
- Max Beerbohm
- Max De Pree
- Max L. Forman
- Max Lerner
- Max Lucado American Christian Author
- Max Planck German Physicist
- Max R. Hickerson
- Maxim Gorky Russian Writer
- Maxwell Maltz American Surgeon
- May Sarton American Children’s Books Writer
- Maya Angelou American Poet
- Mel Brooks American Film Actor
- Meryl Streep American Actor
- Metastasio Italian Poet, Librettist
- Mexican Proverb
- Michael Bloomberg American Businessperson
- Michael Crichton American Novelist, Film Producer
- Michael Dell American Businessperson
- Michael E. Gerber
- Michael Field-Dodgson
- Michael Harrington American Socialist, Writer
- Michael Jackson American Singer-Songwriter
- Michael Jones
- Michael Jordan American Sportsperson
- Michael Korda
- Michael Sun
- Michael Weinbach
- 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, Activist
- Mignon McLaughlin American Journalist
- Miguel Angel Ruiz
- Miguel de Cervantes Spanish Novelist
- Miguel de Unamuno Spanish Essayist
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Mike Ditka American Sportsperson
- Mike Lewis
- Mike Murdock
- Mike Myers
- Mike Ray
- Mikhail Gorbachev Soviet Head of State
- Milton Friedman American Economist
- Milwaukee Journal
- Minna Antrim
- 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, Educator
- Moses Mendelssohn German Jewish Philosopher
- Moshe Chaim Luzzatto Italian Jewish Rabbi
- Mother Teresa Albanian Catholic Humanitarian
- 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
- Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor American-born British Politician
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- Napoleon Hill American Author
- Napoleon I French Monarch
- Natalie Clifford Barney American Playwright, Poet
- Natalie Goldberg American Buddhist Author
- Natasha Josefowitz
- Nathaniel Hawthorne American Novelist
- Nathaniel LeTonnerre
- Nathaniel Parker Willis American Author, Poet, Editor
- Neal A. Maxwell American Mormon Religious Leader
- Neale Donald Walsch American Spiritual Writer
- Ned Rorem
- Neetikshepam
- 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
- Nicholas Murray Butler American Philosopher
- Nick Murray American Financial Consultant, Author
- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
- 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 O. Brown American Philosopher
- Norman Podhoretz American Political Activist
- Norman Vincent Peale American Protestant Children’s Books Writer
- Noruin G. McGranahan
- Novalis
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
- Old Adage
- Old Saying
- Ole Hallesby Norwegian Lutheran Theologian
- Olive Redmond
- Oliver Cromwell British Head of State
- Oliver G. Wilson
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- Oliver Herford American Writer, Artist
- Oliver Juanir
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- 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, Critic
- Orval Hobart Mowrer American Psychologist
- Oscar Hammerstein II American Songwriter, Composer
- Oscar Levant American Musician
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- Ossian 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, Lawyer
- Owen Feltham
P
- P. D. James British Novelist
- P. G. Wodehouse English Novelist
- P. T. Barnum American Businessperson
- Pablo Neruda Chilean Poet
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- Padmasambhava
- Pam Brown
- Pamela Hansford Johnson English Novelist
- Panchatantra
- Paramahansa Yogananda Indian Hindu Mystic
- Parks Cousins
- Patanjali Indian Hindu Philosopher
- Patrick Stewart
- Paul Boese
- Paul Cezanne French Painter
- Paul Dudley White American Cardiologist
- Paul Erdos
- Paul Frank Baer
- Paul G. Hoffman American Businessperson
- Paul Goodman
- Paul J. Meyer
- Paul Lowney
- Paul McCartney British Singer
- Paul Newman American Actor, Philanthropist
- Paul Samuelson American Economist
- Paul Sweeney
- Paul Tillich American Lutheran Theologian
- Paul Vixie American Scientist
- Paul Williams
- Pauline Phillips (Abigail van Buren) American Columnist
- 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, Critic
- Peter Drucker Austrian-born Management Consultant
- Peter Gabriel
- Peter Marshall
- Peter McWilliams American Author
- Peter Senge American Management Consultant
- Peter T. McIntyre
- Petrarch Italian Scholar
- Petronius Roman Courtier, Novelist
- Phil McGraw American TV Personality
- Philibert Joseph Roux French Surgeon
- Philip Doddridge English Nonconformist Leader
- Philip H. Knight American Businessman
- Philip James Bailey English Poet
- Philip K. Dick American Novelist
- Philip Larkin English Poet, Librarian
- Philip Massinger English Dramatist
- Philip Roth American Novelist
- Philip Sidney
- Philip Wylie American Dramatist
- Philippe Quinault French Dramatist
- Phillips Brooks American Episcopal Clergyman
- Phyllis Bottome British Novelist
- Phyllis Diller American Actor, Comedian
- Phyllis McGinley American Children’s Books Writer
- Phyllis Theroux
- Pico Iyer British-born Essayist, Novelist of Indian Origin
- Pierre Beaumarchais French Inventor, Diplomat
- Pierre Corneille French Dramatist
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin French Jesuit Philosopher
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon French Politician, Philosopher
- Pietro Aretino Italian Author, Playwright
- Pilpay
- Plato Ancient Greek Philosopher
- Pliny the Younger Ancient Roman Lawyer, Author
- Plotinus Ancient Greek Philosopher
- Plutarch Ancient Greek Historian
- Polish Proverb
- Pope John Paul II Polish Catholic Religious Leader
- Pope John XXIII Italian Catholic Religious Leader
- Publilius Syrus Syrian-born Latin Writer
- Pythagoras Greek Philosopher
Q
- Queen Victoria British Royal
- Quintilian Roman Critic, Writer
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
- Raistlin Majere
- Ralph Bunche American Political Scientist
- Ralph Charell
- Ralph Ellison American Novelist
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- Ralph Marston
- Ralph Nader American Activist
- Ralph Vaull Starr
- Ralph Waldo Emerson American Philosopher
- Ralph Washington Sockman
- Ram Dass American Hindu Teacher, Author
- Ramachandra Guha Indian Historian
- Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Indian Hindu Philosopher
- Ramana Maharshi Indian Hindu Mystic
- Ramsay MacDonald British Head of State
- Randolph Bourne American Writer, Scholar
- Randy Gray
- Randy Pausch American Academic, Author
- Raquel Welch American Actor
- Ray Bradbury American Novelist
- Ray Charles American Singer
- Ray Dalio American Investor
- Ray Kroc American Entrepreneur
- 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, Novelist, Critic
- Rene Descartes
- Rene Dubos
- Reshad Feild
- 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, TV Personality
- Richard Chenevix Trench Irish Anglican Clergyman
- Richard DeVos American Businessperson
- Richard Evelyn Byrd American Aviator
- Richard Exley
- Richard Feynman American Physicist
- Richard G. Scott American Mormon Religious Leader
- Richard Hamilton
- Richard Hooker English Anglican Priest
- Richard I. Winword
- Richard J. Needham Canadian Humorist, Columnist
- Richard K. Payne American Buddhist Theologian, Author
- Richard L. Evans American Mormon Religions Leader
- Richard Livingstone British Scholar, Educator
- Richard Nixon American Head of State
- Richard Sapir American Novelist
- Richard Thalheimer American Entrepreneur
- Richard Wagner
- 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, Writer
- Robert Bolton English Clergyman
- Robert Brault
- Robert Bresson
- Robert Browning English Poet
- Robert Burns Scottish Poet
- 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, Teacher
- Robert Hughes
- Robert Kiyosaki American Businessperson
- Robert Louis Stevenson Scottish Novelist
- Robert M. Pirsig American Writer
- Robert Maynard Hutchins American Educator
- Robert Muller
- Robert Musil Austrian Novelist
- Robert Nardelli
- Robert Owen British Social Reformer
- Robert Penn Warren American Poet, Novelist
- Robert Quillen American Journalist, Humorist
- Robert Reich
- Robert Ringer American Entrepreneur
- Robert Rose
- Robert S. Johnson American Military Leader
- Robert South English Theologian
- Robert Thurman American Buddhist Scholar
- Robert W. Service Scottish Poet, Author
- Roberto Goizueta Cuban Businessperson
- Robertson Davies Canada Journalist, Playwright
- Robin Morgan American Activist, Writer
- Robin Sharma Canadian Writer, Motivational Speaker
- Robin Williams American Actor, Comedian
- Rod McKuen
- Rodney Dangerfield American Comedian
- Roger Babson American Entre
- Roger Bacon English Philosopher
- Roger Bannister
- Roger McDonald Australian Novelist, Poet
- Roger Wilcox
- Roland Barthes French Literary Theorist
- Rollo May American Philosopher
- Romain Gary French Diplomat
- 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
- Roscoe Dunjee
- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy American Philanthropist
- Roseanne
- Ross Perot American Businessman
- Roy Croft
- Roy E. Moody
- Roy R. Gilson
- Rudy Giuliani American Politician
- Rudyard Kipling British Children’s Books Writer
- 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 E. Renkl
- Ruth Ross
- Rutherford D. Rogers
S
- S. D. Gordon
- S. I. Hayakawa Canadian-born American Academic
- S. J. Perelman American Humorist, Author
- 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 American Italian Saint
- Saint Peter Roman Catholic Saint
- Saki (Hector Hugh Munro) British Short Story Writer
- Sakya Pandita
- Sakyong Mipham Tibetan Buddhist Leader
- Salman Rushdie Indian-born British Novelist
- Salvador Dali Spanish Painter
- Sam Ewing American Sportsperson
- Sam Keen Christine
- Sam Levenson American Humorist
- Sam Shoemaker American Episcopal Priest
- Sam Slick
- Sam Walton American Entrepreneur
- Sammy Davis, Jr. American Singer, Musician
- Samuel Beckett Irish Novelist, Playwright
- Samuel Butler
- Samuel Goldwyn Polish-born American Film Producer
- Samuel Jackson
- Samuel Johnson British Essayist
- Samuel Lover Irish Songwriter, Novelist
- Samuel Richardson English Novelist
- Samuel Rutherford Scottish Presbyterian Theologian
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge English Poet
- Samyutta Nikaya
- Sandra Boynton American Humorist
- Sandra Bullock American Actor
- Sandra Carey
- Sandra Day O’Connor
- Sanhedrin
- Santha Rama Rau Indian-American Novelist, Travel Writer
- Sappho Greek Poet
- Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot American Sociologist
- Sarah Ban Breathnach
- Sarah Bernhardt
- 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
- Seami Motokiyo
- Seamus Heaney Irish Poet, Playwright
- Sean Connery Scottish Actor
- Sean O’Casey
- Seneca the Elder (Marcus Annaeus Seneca) Roman Rhetorician, Writer
- Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) Roman Philosopher
- Seth Godin American Entrepreneur
- Seth Klarman American Investor
- Shakti Gawain American Author
- Shana Alexander American Journalist, Editor
- Shantideva Indian Buddhist Scholar
- Shaquille O’Neal American Sportsperson
- Sharon Stone American Actor
- Shel Silverstein American Children’s Books Writer
- Sheri L. Dew American Mormon Writer
- Sheridan Le Fanu Irish Novelist
- Sherwood Anderson
- Shirley MacLaine American Actor
- Shunryu Suzuki
- Sicilian Proverb
- Siddha Nagarjuna
- 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
- Somalian Proverb
- Song of Solomon
- Soong Mei-ling Taiwanese First Lady, Politician
- Sophia Loren Italian Actor
- Sophie Swetchine Russian Christian Mystic
- Sophocles Ancient Greek Dramatist
- Soren Kierkegaard
- Spanish Proverb
- Sri Aurobindo Indian Hindu Nationalist
- Sri Chinmoy Indian Yoga Teacher, Writer
- St. Augustine
- St. Vincent de Paul
- Stanislas de Boufflers French Political leader, Writer
- Stanley J. Randall
- Stanley J. Sarnoff
- Stanley Kubrick American Film Director, Writer
- 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 Hawking English Theoretical Physicist
- Stephen Jay Gould American Paleontology, Biologist
- Stephen King American Novelist
- Stephen Leacock
- Stephen Samuel Wise American Jewish Rabbi
- Stephen Sondheim American Musician, Composer
- Stephen Vincent Benet
- Stephen Vizinczey Hungarian-born Canadian Novelist
- Sterling W. Sill American Mormon Religious Leader
- Steve Ballmer
- Steve Droke
- Steve Goodier
- Steve Gray
- Steve Henderson
- Steve Jobs American Entrepreneur
- Steve Young
- Steven Callahan
- Steven Spielberg American Film Director
- Steven Wright American Comedian, Actor
- Stevie Wonder American Singer
- Stewart B. Johnson
- Stewart Udall American Politician
- Stuart Chase American Economist
- Stuart Shaw
- Subhashita Manjari
- Sue Atchley Ebaugh
- Sufi Saying
- Sun Tzu Chinese Military Leader
- Susan B. Anthony American Civil Rights Leader
- Susan Sontag American Writer, Philosopher
- Susan St Lawrence
- Susanna Clark & Richard Leigh
- Suzanne Nichols
- Swami Chinmayananda Indian Hindu Teacher
- Swami Krishnananda
- Swami Vivekananda Indian Hindu Mystic
- Swedish Proverb
- Sydney J. Harris American Journalist
- Sydney Smith English Anglican Writer
- Sylvester Stallone American Actor, Film Director
- 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
- 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
- Thaddeus Golas
- The 14th Dalai Lama Tibetan Buddhist Religious Leader
- The Bhagavad Gita Hindu Scripture
- The Dhammapada Buddhist Anthology of Verses
- The Divine Pymander
- 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 Rotarian
- 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, Historian
- 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, Novelist
- Thomas Brackett Reed American Politician, Lawyer
- Thomas Brooks
- Thomas Browne English Christian Author
- Thomas Carlyle Scottish Writer
- Thomas Chandler Haliburton Canadian Author, Humorist
- Thomas de Quincey English Essayist, Writer
- 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. Odem, Jr.
- Thomas Love Peacock English Satirist, Novelist
- Thomas Mann German Novelist
- Thomas Masson American Journalist, Humorist
- 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 Shank
- Thomas Starr King American Unitarian Minister
- Thomas Szasz Hungarian Psychiatrist
- Thomas Wentworth Higginson American Unitarian Minister
- Thomas Wolfe
- Thornton Wilder American Novelist, Playwright
- Thucydides
- Tibetan Proverb
- Tiger Woods American Sportsperson
- Tilda Swinton British Actor
- Tim Ferriss
- Tim Renfro
- Tim Robbins
- Tim Wiley
- Timothy Leary American Psychologist, Author
- Titus Maccius Plautus
- Tobias Smollett Scottish Poet, Novelist, Author
- 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 Prothro American Sportsperson
- Tonbo
- Toni Morrison American Novelist
- Tony Alessandra
- Tony Blair British Statesman
- Tony Dorsett
- Tony Robbins American Actor Author
- Truman Capote
- Tryon Edwards American Theologian
- Tulsidas
- Tupac Shakur American Musician, Actor
- Turkish Proverb
- Tyra Banks American Model
U
- Ulysses S. Grant American Head of State
- Unknown
- Ursula K. Le Guin Science-fiction writer
V
- V. S. Pritchett British Short Story Writer
- 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
- 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, Comedian
- 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, Librettist
- W. Somerset Maugham French Playwright
- W. Triesthof
- 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 Lippmann American Journalist
- Walter Reuther
- Walter Scott Scottish Novelist
- Walter Wintle American Poet
- Walter Wriston
- Wang Yangming
- Warren Beatty
- Warren Bennis American Scholar
- Warren Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman
- 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
- Wayne Pocock
- Welsh Proverb
- Wendell Phillips American Abolitionist
- Wendell Willkie American Politician
- Werner Heisenberg German Theoretical Physicist
- Wernher von Braun German-born American Engineer
- Wess Roberts
- White Eagle
- Whitney Young American Civil Rights Leader
- Whoopi Goldberg American Comedian, Actor
- Wild Bill
- Wilferd Arlan Peterson American Author
- Wilfred Grenfell Canadian Humanitarian
- Wilhelm Reich
- Wilhelm Stekel Austrian Physician
- Wilhelm von Humboldt German Philosopher
- Will Durant American Historian, Philosopher
- 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 Blackstone English Judge, Jurist, Academic
- William Blake English Poet
- William Buechner American Nuclear Physicist
- William Butler Yeats Irish Poet
- William C. deMille American Screenwriter
- William C. Durant American Entrepreneur, Business
- William Carlos Williams American Pediatrician, Doctor
- William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley English Political leader
- William Congreve English Playwright, Poet
- William Connor Magee
- William Cowper English Anglican Poet
- William Croswell Doane American Anglican Hymn writer
- William D. Hoard American Elected Rep
- William Dean Howells American Novelist
- William Drummond
- William Durant
- William Ellery Channing
- William Ernest Henley English Poet, Critic, Editor
- William Ewart Gladstone British Head of State
- William F. Buckley, Jr. American TV Personality, Author
- William F. Scolavino
- William Faulkner American Novelist
- William Feather American Publisher
- William George Jordan American Essayist
- William Gilmore Simms American Poet
- William Glasser American Psychiatrist
- William Graham Sumner American Polymath, Academic
- William H. Gass American Short Story Writer
- William H. Seward American Elected Representative
- William Hazlitt English Essayist
- William Hogarth English Painter, Cartoonist
- 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 Lyon Phelps American Author
- William Makepeace Thackeray English Novelist
- William Mather Lewis
- William McFee
- William McKinley American Head of State
- William Morris English Textile Designer, Artist
- William Motter Inge American Playwright
- William O. Douglas American Judge
- William of Ockham English Philosopher
- William Osler Canadian Physician
- William P. Merrill
- William Penn American Entrepreneur
- William Pukey
- 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 Wharton
- William Winter
- William Wordsworth English Poet
- William Wycherley English Dramatist
- Willie Davis
- Willis R. Whitney American Chemist
- Wilson Mizner American Playwright
- Wilt Chamberlain American Sportsperson
- Winston Churchill British Head of State
- Witold Gombrowicz
- 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, Musician
- Yoshida Kenko
Z
- Zeami Motokiyo Japanese Playwright
- Zelda Fitzgerald American Novelist
- Zen Proverb Japanese School of Mahayana Buddhism
- Zeus
- Zhuang Zhou Chinese Philosopher
- Zig Ziglar American Author
- Ziggy
- Zoroaster