Authors
A
- A. A. Milne
- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
- A. Powell Davies
- Abigail Adams
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Maslow
- Aeschylus
- Aesop
- Afrika Bambaataa
- Agatha Christie
- Akhenaten
- Alan Cohen
- Alan Watts
- Albert Camus
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Schweitzer
- Aldous Huxley
- Alexander Chalmers
- Alexander Pope
- Alexander the Great
- Alexandre Dumas
- Alexis Carrel
- Alfred Adler
- Alfred North Whitehead
- Alfred Tennyson
- Alice Walker
- Amber Valletta
- Ambrose Bierce
- Amelia Earhart
- Amy Bloom
- Amy Poehler
- Amy Tan
- Anatole France
- Anaïs Nin
- André Malraux
- Andy Rooney
- Andy Warhol
- Anna Pavlova
- Anne Bradstreet
- Anne Brontë
- Anne Frank
- Anne Lamott
- Anne Lindbergh
- Annie Dillard
- Ansel Adams
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Anton Chekhov
- Archimedes
- Aristotle
- Aristotle Onassis
- Arnold Palmer
- Arthur Ashe
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Arthur Rubinstein
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Audre Lorde
- Audrey Hepburn
- Augustine of Hippo
- Avery Brooks
- Ayn Rand
B
- B. F. Skinner
- Babatunde Olatunji
- Babe Ruth
- Baltasar Gracián
- Barack Obama
- Barbara Bush
- Barbara De Angelis
- Barry Switzer
- Basil of Caesarea
- Ben Fountain
- Ben Hogan
- Ben Jonson
- Ben Stein
- Benjamin Disraeli
- Benjamin Franklin
- Benjamin Haydon
- Benjamin Spock
- Bernadette Devlin
- Bernard Shaw
- Bernice Reagon
- Bertolt Brecht
- Bertrand Russell
- Betty Friedan
- Bill Bradley
- Bill Gates
- Bill Watterson
- Billie Armstrong
- Billie Jean King
- Billy Wilder
- Blaise Pascal
- Bo Jackson
- Bob Feller
- Bob Knight
- Bob Newhart
- Bodhidharma
- Booker T. Washington
- Brendan Behan
- Brene Brown
- Brené Brown
- Brian Tracy
- Brooks Adams
- Bruce Lee
- Buckminster Fuller
- Buddha
C
- C.S. Lewis
- Calvin Coolidge
- Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
- Carl Icahn
- Carl Jung
- Carl Lewis
- Carl Sagan
- Carl Sandburg
- Carlos Castaneda
- Carol Burnett
- Caroline Myss
- Carrie Snow
- Casey Stengel
- Caterina Fake
- Cecil B. DeMille
- Cesar Chavez
- Chanakya
- Charles Caleb Colton
- Charles Darwin
- Charles Dickens
- Charles Du Bos
- Charles Eastman
- Charles F. Kettering
- Charles Henry Parkhurst
- Charles Kingsley
- Charles Lamb
- Charles Lindbergh
- Charles Péguy
- Charles Spurgeon
- Charlie Chaplin
- Charlie Munger
- Charlotte Brontë
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Cheng Yen
- Christian Dior
- Christie Brinkley
- Christopher Morley
- Christopher Reeve
- Chuck Norris
- Chuck Swindoll
- Cicero
- Clay Shirky
- Coco Chanel
- Colette
- Colin Powell
- Confucius
- Corita Kent
- Cory Doctorow
- Cynthia Ozick
D
- Dag Hammarskjöld
- Daisaku Ikeda
- Dalai Lama
- Dale Carnegie
- Dale Earnhardt
- Dale Turner
- Dan Gable
- Daniel J. Boorstin
- Daniel Webster
- Danilo Dolci
- Dante Alighieri
- David Bader
- David Bowie
- David Brinkley
- David Eddings
- David McCullough
- David Rockefeller
- Dee Hock
- Deepak Chopra
- Democritus
- Demosthenes
- Denis Waitley
- Desmond Tutu
- Dhammapada
- Diana, Princess of Wales
- Diogenes
- Dolly Parton
- Don DeLillo
- Don Marquis
- Don Miguel Ruiz
- Don Shula
- Donald Trump
- Doris Mortman
- Dorothy Thompson
- Doug Horton
- Doug Larson
- Douglas Adams
- Douglas Coupland
- Douglas MacArthur
- Dr. Seuss
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
E
- E. E. Cummings
- E. M. Forster
- E.E. Cummings
- Earl Monroe
- Eckhart Tolle
- Ed Cunningham
- Eden Phillpotts
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Edith Wharton
- Edmond Rostand
- Edmund Burke
- Edward Everett Hale
- Edward Gibbon
- Edward Young
- Edward de Bono
- Edwin Markham
- Eknath Easwaran
- Elbert Hubbard
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Elie Wiesel
- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
- Elizabeth Arden
- Elizabeth Browning
- Elizabeth Kenny
- Elizabeth Montagu
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Ellen Gilchrist
- Ellen Glasgow
- Elon Musk
- Emerson
- Emily Brontë
- Emily Dickinson
- Epictetus
- Epicurus
- Erasmus
- Eric Hoffer
- Eric Liddell
- Erma Bombeck
- Ernest Hemingway
- Ernie Banks
- Etty Hillesum
- Euripides
- Eustace Budgell
- Everett Dirksen
- Ezra Stiles
- Ezra Taft Benson
F
- Farhan Akhtar
- Fawn M. Brodie
- Florence Nightingale
- Forrest Church
- Francis Bacon
- Francis de Sales
- Francis of Assisi
- Frank Abagnale
- Frank Herbert
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Franz Grillparzer
- Franz Kafka
- Franz Liszt
- François de La Rochefoucauld
- Fred Rogers
- Frederick Douglass
- Frida Kahlo
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
G
- G. K. Chesterton
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Gabriel García Márquez
- Gail Sheehy
- Galileo Galilei
- George Addair
- George Bernard Shaw
- George Eliot
- George Foreman
- George Herbert
- George Jean Nathan
- George Marshall
- George Orwell
- George S. Patton
- George Sand
- George Santayana
- George Washington
- Gertrude Stein
- Giotto
- Gloria Steinem
- Goethe
- Golda Meir
- Gordon Hinckley
- Grandma Moses
- Groucho Marx
- Gustave Flaubert
H
- H. G. Wells
- H. Jackson Brown Jr.
- H.G. Wells
- Hal Abelson
- Hannah Arendt
- Hannah More
- Hannah Szenes
- Hanya Yanagihara
- Harbhajan Singh
- Harold Nicolson
- Harper Lee
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Harriet Lerner
- Harriet Tubman
- Harriet Woods
- Harry Kemp
- Haruki Murakami
- Harvey Mackay
- Havelock Ellis
- Helen Keller
- Hellen Keller
- Helmut Schmidt
- Henri Bergson
- Henri Nouwen
- Henri Poincaré
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel
- Henry Adams
- Henry David Thoreau
- Henry Ford
- Henry J. Kaiser
- Henry James
- Henry K. Beecher
- Henry Miller
- Henry Moore
- Henry Reed
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Henry Ward Beecher
- Henry van Dyke Jr.
- Heraclitus
- Herbert Bayard Swope
- Herbert Hoover
- Herman Melville
- Hermann Hesse
- Herodotus
- Hippocrates
- Holly Near
- Homer
- Honoré de Balzac
- Horace
- Howard H. Aiken
- Howard Marks
- Howard Zinn
- Hubert Humphrey
- Hugh Jackman
- Hugh Miller
- Hunter S. Thompson
I
- Ian Botham
- Immanuel Kant
- Indira Gandhi
- Ingrid Bergman
- Iris Murdoch
- Isaac Asimov
- Isaac D'Israeli
- Isaac Newton
- Isocrates
- Ivy Baker Priest
J
- J. M. Barrie
- J. R. R. Tolkien
- J. Willard Marriott
- J.K. Rowling
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- Jack Buck
- Jack Dixon
- Jack Welch
- James A. Yorke
- James Baldwin
- James Cameron
- James F. Byrnes
- James Freeman Clarke
- James Gleick
- James Oppenheim
- Jane Addams
- Jane Austen
- Jane Goodall
- Jane Roberts
- Jane Wyman
- Janet Jackson
- Janis Joplin
- Jawaharlal Nehru
- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
- Jean Cocteau
- Jean François Paul de Gondi
- Jean de La Bruyère
- Jean de La Fontaine
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Jerome
- Jessamyn West
- Jim Bouton
- Jim Elliot
- Jim Morrison
- Jim Rohn
- Jimi Hendrix
- Jimmy Dean
- Joan Didion
- Joan Rivers
- Joe Adcock
- Joe Namath
- Joe Paterno
- Johann Kaspar Lavater
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- John Acosta
- John Adams
- John Astin
- John Barrymore
- John Bercow
- John Berry
- John Brunner
- John Burroughs
- John C. Maxwell
- John Cleese
- John Dewey
- John Dryden
- John Eliot
- John F. Kennedy
- John Galsworthy
- John Junor
- John Keats
- John Lennon
- John Locke
- John Lubbock
- John Madden
- John Marshall
- John McCain
- John Muir
- John Pierrakos
- John Powell
- John Quincy Adams
- John Ruskin
- John Steinbeck
- John Stuart Mill
- John Wooden
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
- Jonas Salk
- Jonathan Kozol
- Jonathan Swift
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Joseph Addison
- Joseph Campbell
- Joseph Joubert
- Joseph Prince
- Joseph Roux
- Joseph Stalin
- Joseph Wood Krutch
- Joyce Brothers
- Joyce Meyer
- Judy Garland
- Julian Casablancas
- Julie Morgenstern
K
- Kahlil Gibran
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- Karl Menninger
- Katherine Mansfield
- Kathleen Norris
- Ken Griffin
- Ken Venturi
- Kenji Miyazawa
- Khalil Gibran
- Kin Hubbard
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Kyle Chandler
L
- Lao Tzu
- Laozi
- Larry Elder
- Larry Niven
- Larry Page
- Lauren Bacall
- Laurence J. Peter
- Laurie Anderson
- Len Wein
- Lena Horne
- Leo Buscaglia
- Leo Rosten
- Leo Tolstoy
- Leonard Nimoy
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Lewis Carroll
- Lewis Cass
- Libby Larsen
- Lily Tomlin
- Lin Yutang
- Lisa Alther
- Lord Byron
- Loretta Young
- Lou Holtz
- Louis Pasteur
- Louisa May Alcott
- Louise Hay
- Lucille Ball
- Lucretius
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Léon Blum
M
- M. Scott Peck
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Malala Yousafzai
- Malcolm X
- Man Ray
- Manuel Puig
- Mao Zedong
- Marcel Proust
- Marcia Fudge
- Marcus Aurelius
- Margaret Atwood
- Margaret Chase Smith
- Margaret Cousins
- Margaret Fuller
- Margaret Laurence
- Margaret Mead
- Margaret Thatcher
- Maria Montessori
- Maria Shriver
- Marian Wright Edelman
- Marianne Williamson
- Marie Antoinette
- Marie Curie
- Mariella Frostrup
- Marilyn Monroe
- Marilyn vos Savant
- Mark Goulston
- Mark Twain
- Mark Zuckerberg
- Marsha Petrie Sue
- Martha Graham
- Martha Washington
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Mary Kay Ash
- Mary Pickford
- Mary Shelley
- Masayoshi Son
- Maureen Dowd
- Max Frisch
- Max Planck
- Maya Angelou
- Maya Lin
- Melody Beattie
- Mencius
- Mia Hamm
- Michael Jordan
- Michael Korda
- Michael Phelps
- Michel de Montaigne
- Michelangelo
- Michelle Obama
- Mignon McLaughlin
- Miguel de Cervantes
- Mike Ditka
- Mike Singletary (basketball)
- Milton Berle
- Mohnish Pabrai
- Molière
- Moncure D. Conway
- Montesquieu
- Morihei Ueshiba
- Morris West
- Mortimer J. Adler
- Mother Angelica
- Mother Teresa
- Muhammad Ali
- Muriel Rukeyser
- Murray Gell-Mann
N
- Nadine Gordimer
- Naguib Mahfouz
- Napoleon
- Napoleon Hill
- Nargis Fakhri
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Neil Gaiman
- Nelle Harper Lee
- Nelson Mandela
- Neruda Pablo
- Niccolò Machiavelli
- Niels Bohr
- Nikki Giovanni
- Nikola Tesla
- Nikos Kazantzakis
- Nina Simone
- Nora Roberts
- Norman Cousins
- Norman Douglas
- Norman Mailer
- Norman Schwarzkopf
- Norman Vincent Peale
- Northrop Frye
O
- Octavia E. Butler
- Octavio Paz
- Og Mandino
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
- Olivier Messiaen
- Oprah Winfrey
- Orson Welles
- Oscar Wilde
- Osho
- Ovid
P
- P. G. Wodehouse
- Paavo Nurmi
- Pablo Neruda
- Pablo Picasso
- Paracelsus
- Paramahansa Yogananda
- Parker Palmer
- Pat Riley
- Paul Auster
- Paul Cézanne
- Paul Theroux
- Paul Tillich
- Paulo Coelho
- Pele
- Pema Chödrön
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Pericles
- Peter Abelard
- Peter Drucker
- Peter Elbow
- Phil Jackson
- Philip Sidney
- Phyllis Diller
- Phyllis Grissim-Theroux
- Pierre Curie
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- Plato
- Plautus
- Plotinus
- Plutarch
- Pope John XXIII
- Pope Paul VI
- Princess Diana
- Publilius Syrus
- Pythagoras
R
- Rabbi Hillel
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Rachel Carson
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- Ralph Abernathy
- Ralph Marston
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Ramakrishna
- Ravi Zacharias
- Ray Bradbury
- Reggie Jackson (basketball, born 1990)
- Reinhold Niebuhr
- René Descartes
- Richard Bach
- Richard Branson
- Richard Burton
- Richard Garriott
- Richard Needham
- Richard Whately
- Rita Mae Brown
- Robert F. Kennedy
- Robert Frost
- Robert Fulghum
- Robert Graves
- Robert Griffin III
- Robert Kiyosaki
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Robert M. Pirsig
- Robert Schuller
- Robert Southey
- Rogers Hornsby
- Rosa Parks
- Rose Kennedy
- Rowan Williams
- Roy T. Bennett
- Rudolf Arnheim
- Rumi
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
S
- Sai Baba
- Salman Rushdie
- Sam Keen
- Sam Levenson
- Sam Rayburn
- Sam Walton
- Sammy Davis Jr.
- Samuel Beckett
- Samuel Butler
- Samuel Johnson
- Samuel Richardson
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Satchel Paige
- Saul Alinsky
- Seneca the Younger
- Shakti Gawain
- Shaquille O'Neal
- Shirley MacLaine
- Sidney Hook
- Sigmund Freud
- Simon Mainwaring
- Simon Sinek
- Simone Weil
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Socrates
- Sojourner Truth
- Sophocles
- Sri Chinmoy
- Stephen Covey
- Stephen Hawking
- Stephen King
- Steve Jobs
- Steven Van Zandt
- Stewart Brand
- Sun Tzu
- Susan B. Anthony
- Susan Orlean
- Swami Vivekananda
- Sydney J. Harris
- Sylvia Plath
- Søren Kierkegaard
T
- T.S. Eliot
- Tennessee Williams
- Teresa of Ávila
- The Buddha
- Theodore H. White
- Theodore Isaac Rubin
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Thomas A. Edison
- Thomas Aquinas
- Thomas Carlyle
- Thomas Dewar
- Thomas Edison
- Thomas Fuller
- Thomas Hardy
- Thomas Haynes Bayly
- Thomas Hobbes
- Thomas J. Watson
- Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Paine
- Thornton Wilder
- Thích Nhất Hạnh
- Tina Fey
- Tom Brokaw
- Tom Hodgkinson
- Tom Krause
- Tom Peters
- Toni Morrison
- Tony Blair
- Tony Robbins
- Torquato Tasso
- Tryon Edwards
U
V
- V.S. Naipaul
- Vernon Cooper
- Vernor Vinge
- Victor Hugo
- Victoria Osteen
- Viktor Frankl
- Vince Lombardi
- Vincent van Gogh
- Virgil
- Virginia Woolf
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Volker Grassmuck
- Voltaire
- Vusi Mahlasela
- Václav Havel
W
- W. Clement Stone
- W. H. Auden
- Walt Disney
- Walt Whitman
- Walter Benjamin
- Walter Inglis Anderson
- Walter Lippmann
- Walter Scott
- Walter Winchell
- Warren Bennis
- Warren Buffett
- Washington Irving
- Wayne Dyer
- Wayne Gretzky
- Whoopi Goldberg
- Will Durant
- Will Rogers
- Willa Cather
- William Arthur Ward
- William Blake
- William Burroughs
- William Butler Yeats
- William C. Menninger
- William Cowper
- William Ellery Channing
- William Faulkner
- William Hazlitt
- William Hurt
- William Inge
- William James
- William Lyon Phelps
- William Penn
- William Saroyan
- William Shakespeare
- William Sloane Coffin
- William Wordsworth
- Wilson Mizner
- Winifred Holtby
- Winston Churchill
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Woodrow Wilson
- Woody Allen