Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist. He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass–energy equivalence, Nobel Prize in…

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and author of short stories. Known for his barbed wit, he was one of the most successful…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, philosopher, poet, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement in the early 19th century. His teachings directly…

Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, satirist, lecturer and writer. Twain is most noted for his novels…

Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche , born in Prussian Saxony and publishing in German between 1872 and 1888, became an important philosopher and philologist. He wrote…

Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC, PC was a British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World…

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author and printer, satirist, political…

George Bernard Shaw

Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay 1938 Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright. Born in Dublin, he moved to London at the age of twenty…

Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi , also known as Mahatma Gandhi, was a major political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement. He was the…

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln , the sixteenth President of the United States, successfully led his country through its greatest crisis, the Civil War, only to be assassinated…

Dr. Seuss

Theodor Seuss Geisel was an American writer and cartoonist, better known by his pen name, Dr. Seuss . He published over 48 children's books, which were often characterized…

Winnie the Pooh

Winnie-the-Pooh, commonly shortened to Pooh Bear and once referred to as Edward Bear, is a fictional bear created by A. A. Milne. The character first appeared in…

Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou , is an American poet, memoirist, actress and an important figure in the American Civil Rights Movement. Angelou is known for her series of six autobiographies…

Aristotle

Aristotle was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote on many different subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry…

Mae West

Mae West was an American actress, playwright, screenwriter, and sex symbol. Famous for her bawdy double entendres, West made a name for herself in vaudeville and…

Voltaire

François-Marie Arouet , better known by the pen name Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, essayist, Freemason, deist and philosopher known for his wit,…

C.S. Lewis

Clive Staples "Jack" Lewis , commonly referred to as C.

George Carlin

George Denis Patrick Carlin is a Grammy-winning American stand-up comedian, actor, and author. Carlin is especially noted for his political and black humor and…

Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Gail Winfrey , often referred to simply as Oprah, is an American television host, media mogul, and philanthropist. Her internationally-syndicated talk show…

Woody Allen

Woody Allen is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, jazz musician, comedian and playwright. Allen's distinctive films, which…

Zig Ziglar

Lao Tzu

Laozi was a philosopher of ancient China and is a central figure in Taoism . Laozi literally means "Old Master" and is generally considered an honorific. Laozi…

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He…

Confucius

Confucius , lit. "Master Kung," September 28, 551 BCE - 479 BCE) was a Chinese thinker and social philosopher, whose teachings and philosophy have deeply influenced…