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Humanitarian and former U.S. first lady (1884-1962)

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Indian independence leader (1869-1948)

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Irish poet and playwright (1854-1900)

Oprah Winfrey
TV host, producer, and actress (1954-present)

Isabel Allende
Chilean American writer (1942-present)

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Canadian author (1874-1942)
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Abigail Adams
Former U.S. first lady (1744-1818)
Abraham Maslow
Abraham Verghese
Adrienne Rich
Poet and feminist (1929-2012)
Aesop
Agnes Martin
Abstract painter (1912-2004)
Ai Weiwei
Chinese artist and activist (1957-present)
Al Pacino
Oscar- and Tony-winning actor (1940-present)
Alain Badiou
Alan Fletcher
Alan Watts
British philosopher, writer, and speaker (1915-1973)
Albert Camus
French philosopher and author (1913-1960)
Albert Einstein
Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1879-1955)
Alex Haley
Author (1921-1992)
Alexander Graham Bell
Inventor and scientist (1847-1922)
Alexander Pope
Alexander Woollcott
Alfred Adler
Alice Cary
Alice Cooper
Alice Neel
Alice Walker
Allen Ginsberg
Beat poet and writer (1926-1997)
Alva Myrdal
Amanda Gorman
Amelia Earhart
Aviation pioneer (1897-disappeared 1937)
Amit Ray
Indian spiritual teacher (1960-present)
Amit Ray
Indian spiritual teacher (1960-present)
Amy Chua
Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Children's author and memoirist (1965-2017)
Amy Poehler
Amy Schumer
Anatole France
Anaïs Nin
French American diarist and author (1903-1977)
Andy Warhol
Angela Davis
Ann Lauterbach
Ann Patchett
Author (1963-present)
Anna Gavalda
Anna Wintour
Fashion editor (1949-present)
Anne Carson
Anne Frank
Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (1929-1945)
Anne Lamott
Anne Truitt
Sculptor (1921-2004)
Annie Ernaux
Nobel Prize-winning French writer (1940-present)
Anonymous
Anselm Kiefer
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French writer and aviator (1900-1944)
Aristotle
Ancient Greek philosopher (384-322 BCE)
Audre Lorde
Writer, poet, and civil rights activist (1934-1992)
Audrey Hepburn
August Wilson
Auguste Rodin
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B. F. Skinner
B. Smith
Ba Jin
Barbara Kingsolver
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer (1955-present)
Beatrice Wood
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Benjamin Disraeli
Former U.K. prime minister (1804-1881)
Benjamin Franklin
U.S. founding father (1706-1790)
Benjamin Hoff
Bertrand Russell
Bessie Anderson Stanley
Betty Smith
Betty White
Actress and comedian (1922-2021)
Betty Williams
Beyoncé Knowles
Bianca Sparacino
Bill Watterson
Cartoonist and “Calvin and Hobbes” creator (1958-present)
Billie Jean King
Björk
Icelandic musician (1965-present)
Black Francis
Musician (1965-present)
Bo Burnham
Bob Dylan
Singer-songwriter (1941-present)
Bob Goff
Bob Marley
Jamaican reggae singer (1945-1981)
Bob Ross
Booker T. Washington
Brené Brown
Researcher and storyteller (1965-present)
Bruce Lee
Martial artist and film actor (1940-1973)
Buckminster Fuller
Buddhist proverb
Buddy Wakefield
Byron Katie
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C.S. Lewis
British writer (1898-1963)
Carl Jung
Swiss psychologist (1875-1961)
Carl Rogers
Psychologist (1902-1987)
Carl Sagan
Astronomer and science communicator (1934-1996)
Carl Sandburg
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and biographer (1878-1967)
Carol Burnett
Carrie Mae Weems
Photographer (1953-present)
Celeste Ng
Cesar Chavez
Labor leader and civil rights activist (1927-1993)
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Dickens
English novelist (1812-1870)
Charles Kettering
Charles Wagner
French pastor (1852-1918)
Charlie Chaplin
Oscar-winning actor and filmmaker (1889-1977)
Charlie Kaufman
Screenwriter and film director (1958-present)
Charlotte Brontë
Author and poet (1816-1855)
Cher
Cheryl Strayed
Author (1968-present)
Chief Joseph
Leader of the Nez Perce (1840-1904)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Nigerian author (1977-present)
Chinua Achebe
Chris Burden
Christopher Germer
Clinical psychologist (Unknown-present)
Christopher Moore
Author (1957-present)
Christopher Morley
Cicero
Clarice Lispector
Brazilian writer (1920-1977)
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Colson Whitehead
Conan O'Brien
Confucius
Chinese philosopher and teacher (c. 551-479 BCE)
Cormac McCarthy
Cornel West
Philosopher, activist, and social critic (1953-present)
Criss Jami
Cynthia Ozick
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Daisaku Ikeda
Japanese Buddhist philosopher (1928-2023)
Dalai Lama
Spiritual leader of the Tibet (1935-present)
Dale Carnegie
Damian Lillard
Daniel Defoe
English novelist and journalist (1660-1731)
David Bowie
David Brooks
Political commentator (1961-present)
David Foster Wallace
Author (1962-2008)
David Lynch
Filmmaker (1946-2025)
David Sedaris
David Steindl-Rast
Desmond Tutu
Diana Vreeland
Fashion editor (1903-1989)
Diane von Fürstenberg
Dinah Craik
Dolly Parton
Dolores del Río
Mexican actress (1904-1983)
Dominique Levy
Dorothy Parker
Poet and writer (1893-1967)
Dorothy Thompson
Dorothy West
Drew Barrymore
Actress and TV host (1975-present)
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E.B. White
Writer and children's book author (1899-1985)
E.E. Cummings
E.M. Forster
Earl Nightingale
Motivational speaker and author (1921-1989)
Eckhart Tolle
Spiritual teacher and self-help author (1948-present)
Eden Phillpotts
Edgar Allan Poe
Writer, poet, and critic (1809-1849)
Edith Wharton
Pulitzer Prize-winning author (1862-1937)
Edward Gibbon
Edward Hopper
Elaine May
Elbert Hubbard
Writer and publisher (1856-1915)
Eleanor Farjeon
Eleanor Roosevelt
Humanitarian and former U.S. first lady (1884-1962)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Blackwell
Ella Fitzgerald
Ellen Burstyn
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Elton John
Elvis Presley
Singer and actor (1935-1977)
Emery Lord
Author
Emily Dickinson
Poet (1830-1886)
Emma Watson
Epictetus
Epicurus
Greek philosopher (341-270 BCE)
Eric Roth
Ernest Hemingway
Nobel Prize-winning writer (1899-1961)
Esther Perel
Psychotherapist and author (1958-present)
Etty Hillesum
Eudora Welty
Eugène Ionesco
Euripides
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Author (1896-1940)
Fay Weldon
Federico Fellini
Italian director and screenwriter (1920-1993)
Fernando Pessoa
Fiona Apple
Flannery O'Connor
Florence Nightingale
Francis Bacon
English philosopher and statesman (1561-1626)
Francis Picabia
Frank Capra
Frank Langella
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Zappa
Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd U.S. president (1882-1945)
Franz Kafka
Writer (1883-1924)
Fred Rogers
Television host (1928-2003)
Frederick Douglass
Abolitionist and orator (1818-1895)
Freida Pinto
Frida Kahlo
Mexican painter and self-portraitist (1907-1954)
Fridtjof Nansen
Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher and cultural critic (1844–1900)
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Russian novelist (1821-1881)
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G.K. Chesterton
Gabriel García Márquez
Gabrielle Zevin
Gail Honeyman
Gail Sheehy
Gautama Buddha
Gayle Carson
George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright (1856-1950)
George Eliot
English writer (1819-1880)
George Harrison
George Herbert
George Orwell
George Santayana
Spanish American philosopher and writer (1863-1952)
George Saunders
Writer (1958-present)
George Seaton Bowes
Author and reverend
Georgia O’Keeffe
Modernist painter (1887-1986)
Gertrude Stein
Gilda Radner
Gloria Anzaldúa
Gloria Steinem
Journalist, feminist, and activist (1934-present)
Gore Vidal
Greta Gerwig
Gretel Ehrlich
Guy Gavriel Kay
Canadian fantasy author (1954-present)
Gwendolyn Brooks
H
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Hafez
Hafiz
Hal Borland
Hamilton Wright Mabie
Hannah Gadsby
Australian comedian and writer (1978-present)
Hannibal
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (1949-present)
Havelock Ellis
Helen Fagin
Helen Keller
Author, educator, and activist (1880-1968)
Henry David Thoreau
Writer, philosopher, and naturalist (1817-1862)
Henry Miller
Henry Rollins
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Ward Beecher
Herb Brooks
Hermann Hesse
Horace
Hunter S. Thompson
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J.M. Barrie
Scottish novelist and playwright (1860-1937)
J.R.R. Tolkien
English writer and scholar (1892-1973)
Jacinda Ardern
40th prime minister of New Zealand (1980-present)
Jack Kerouac
Novelist and poet (1922-1969)
Jack Kornfield
Buddhist teacher (1945-present)
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
James Baldwin
Writer and civil rights activist (1924-1987)
James Clear
James Dean
James Dyson
James Thurber
Writer and cartoonist (1894-1961)
Jamie Lee Curtis
Jane Austen
English author (1775-1817)
Jane Goodall
Animal scientist and conservationist (1934-present)
Jane Wagner
Janis Joplin
Jasper Johns
Painter, sculptor, and printmaker (1930-present)
Javier Bardem
Jawaharlal Nehru
Former prime minister of India (1889-1964)
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jeff Brown
Jenny Slate
Jesse Eisenberg
Jesse Jackson
Jim Carrey
Actor (1962-present)
Joan Didion
Writer and journalist (1934-2021)
Joan Rivers
Actress, comedian, and writer (1933-2014)
Jodi Picoult
Author (1966-present)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
John A. Shedd
John Baldessari
Conceptual artist (1931-2020)
John F. Kennedy
35th U.S. president (1917-1963)
John Irving
John Keats
English poet (1795-1821)
John Maxwell
John Steinbeck
Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer (1902-1968)
John Wooden
Jonathan Sacks
English Orthodox rabbi (1948-2020)
Jonathan Swift
Irish writer and satirist (1667-1745)
Joseph Addison
Joseph Campbell
Author and professor (1904-1987)
Josiah Gilbert Holland
Joyce Brothers
Judi Dench
Oscar-winning English actress (1934-present)
Judy Blume
Judy Garland
Actress, singer, and dancer (1922-1969)
Julia Alvarez
Novelist and poet (1950-present)
Julianne Moore
Julie Andrews
Jóhann Jóhannsson
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Kahlil Gibran
Lebanese American writer (1883-1931)
Kalpana Chawla
Karen E. Quinones Miller
Author and journalist (1958-present)
Katharine Hepburn
Oscar-winning actress (1907-2003)
Katherine Center
Author (1972-present)
Keanu Reeves
Kevin Kelly
Editor and publisher (1952-present)
Kristen Roupenian
Kurt Schwitters
Kurt Vonnegut
Author (1922-2007)
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Lady Gaga
Singer-songwriter and actress (1986-present)
Langston Hughes
Laozi
Leo Tolstoy
Russian author (1828-1910)
Leonard Cohen
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonora Carrington
Les Brown
Politician and motivational speaker (1945-present)
Leslie Gordon
Physician
Lewis Carroll
Lin Yutang
Lois Wyse
Lou Andreas-Salomé
Russian German psychoanalyst and writer (1861-1937)
Louis Pasteur
Louisa May Alcott
Author and poet (1832-1888)
Louise Erdrich
Lucille Ball
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Canadian author (1874-1942)
Ludwig van Beethoven
German composer (1770-1827)
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Luvvie Ajayi
Léon Blum
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Madame de Staël
Madame de Sévigné
Madeleine L'Engle
Author (1918-2007)
Mae Jemison
Mahatma Gandhi
Indian independence leader (1869-1948)
Mahershala Ali
Malala Yousafzai
Pakistani activist and Nobel Prize winner (1997-present)
Malcolm X
Malvina Reynolds
Manolo Blahnik
Marcel Proust
French novelist (1871-1922)
Marcus Aurelius
Roman emperor (121-180 CE)
Marcus Garvey
Political activist and Black nationalist leader (1887-1940)
Margaret Wander Bonanno
Marianne Williamson
Marie Curie
Nobel Prize-winning Polish scientist (1867-1934)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Marilyn Monroe
Marilynne Robinson
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer (1943-present)
Marina Abramović
Mark Twain
Marlene Dietrich
Marsha P. Johnson
LGBTQ+ activist (1945-1992)
Martha Beck
Sociologist and author (1962-present)
Martha Graham
Dancer and choreographer (1894-1991)
Marthe Troly-Curtin
Martin Buber
Martin Luther King Jr.
Civil rights leader (1929-1968)
Mary Karr
Mary Katrantzou
Mary Lou Retton
Olympic gymnast (1968-present)
Mary Oliver
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet (1935-2019)
Mary Schmich
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
Mary Shelley
English novelist (1797-1851)
Mary Tyler Moore
Actress and producer (1936-2017)
Masami Saionji
Massimo Bottura
Matt Damon
Actor (1970-present)
Maxine Hong Kingston
May Sarton
Maya Angelou
Poet, author, and civil rights activist (1928-2014)
Meghan Markle
Mel Robbins
Meryl Streep
Oscar-winning actress (1949-present)
Michael J. Fox
Michelangelo
Michelle Obama
Former U.S. first lady (1964-present)
Mignon McLaughlin
Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish writer (1547-1616)
Miles Davis
Jazz musician, bandleader, and composer (1926-1991)
Mindy Kaling
Actress, producer, and screenwriter (1979-present)
Miriam Miranda
Misty Copeland
Principal ballet dancer (1982-present)
Mitch Albom
Miyamoto Musashi
Japanese samurai (1584-1645)
Moby
Musician and DJ (1965-present)
Montesquieu
Morgan Harper Nichols
Musician and artist (1990-present)
Méret Oppenheim
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P.D. James
Pablo Neruda
Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet (1904-1973)
Patti Smith
Singer, songwriter, and poet (1946-present)
Paul Lewis Boese
Paul McCartney
Paul Williams
Composer, singer, and actor (1940-present)
Paulo Coelho
Brazilian author (1947-present)
Pema Chödrön
Buddhist nun and teacher (1936-present)
Pericles
Peter Diamandis
Peter Drucker
Phil Stutz
Philip Barry
Phoebe Bridgers
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
English actress, writer, and producer (1985-present)
Plutarch
Pope Benedict XVI
Pope John Paul II
Proverbs 17:22
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Rabindranath Tagore
Indian poet (1861-1941)
Rachel Carson
Rainer Maria Rilke
Austrian poet and novelist (1875-1926)
Ralph Ellison
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
Rania Al-Abdullah
Raven Leilani
Ray Bradbury
Author (1920-2012)
Richard Bach
Author and pilot (1936-present)
Richard Paul Evans
Rick Warren
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Rita Mae Brown
Rita Moreno
River Phoenix
Actor (1970-1993)
Robert Browning
Robert Frost
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet (1874-1963)
Robert Graves
Robert Harling
Robert Hunter
Poet and lyricist for the Grateful Dead (1941-2019)
Robert Rabensteiner
Rockwell Kent
Painter and illustrator (1882-1971)
Romain Rolland
Ron Shelton
Rosa Parks
Civil rights activist (1913-2005)
Rose Franken
Rumi
Persian poet and mystic (1207–1273)
RuPaul
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Ruth Gordon
Actress, playwright, and screenwriter (1896-1985)
RZA
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Salvador Dalí
Samuel Johnson
English writer and lexicographer (1709-1784)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
English poet and literary critic (1772-1834)
Sarah Bernhardt
French actress (1844-1923)
Sarah Williams
Saul Bellow
Canadian American writer (1915-2005)
Sean Watkins
Seneca
Ancient Roman philosopher (c. 4 BCE-65 CE)
Shane Koyczan
Sharon Begley
Sharon Salzberg
Author and meditation pioneer (1952-present)
Sheila Heti
Shel Silverstein
Poet, cartoonist, and musician (1930-1999)
Sherwood Anderson
Sheryl Sandberg
Shirley Chisholm
Politician (1924-2005)
Shonda Rhimes
TV producer and screenwriter (1970-present)
Sigmund Freud
Simone de Beauvoir
French philosopher and writer (1908-1986)
Simone Weil
French philosopher (1909-1943)
Sonia Boyce
Sophocles
Spike Jonze
Filmmaker (1969-present)
Squire Bill Widener
Sri Chinmoy
Indian spiritual leader (1931-2007)
Stanley Kubrick
Stefan Sagmeister
Stefano Pilati
Stephen Colbert
Stephen Covey
Motivational author and educator (1932-2012)
Stephen Hawking
English theoretical physicist and cosmologist (1942-2018)
Stephen King
Author of horror novels (1947-present)
Stephen Sondheim
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and lyricist (1930-2021)
Steve Jobs
Entrepreneur and Apple co-founder (1955-2011)
Stevie Wonder
Sue Monk Kidd
Sue Stuart-Smith
Suleika Jaouad
Susan B. Anthony
Susan Sontag
Writer and cultural critic (1933-2004)
Suzy Kassem
Sylvia Plath
Poet and novelist (1932-1963)
Søren Kierkegaard
Danish philosopher (1813-1855)
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T.H. Huxley
T.S. Eliot
Nobel Prize-winning poet and essayist (1888-1965)
Taika Waititi
Taylor Swift
Singer-songwriter (1989-present)
Ted Hughes
Tennessee Williams
Tenzin Palmo
Teresa of Ávila
Spanish nun and mystic (1515-1582)
Terry Pratchett
Fantasy author (1948-2015)
Thelonious Monk
Jazz pianist and composer (1917-1982)
Theodore Roethke
Theodore Roosevelt
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Edison
Inventor (1847-1931)
Thích Nhất Hạnh
Vietnamese Buddhist monk (1926-2022)
Timothy Leary
Todd Henry
Tom Waits
Musician and actor (1949-present)
Toni Cade Bambara
Toni Morrison
Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist (1931-2019)
Trevor Noah
South African comedian, writer, and TV host (1984-present)
Trevor Paglen
Tryon Edwards
Twyla Tharp
Dancer and choreographer (1941-present)
Tyra Banks
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W.B. Yeats
Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet and writer (1865-1939)
W.E.B. Du Bois
W.S. Merwin
Poet (1927-2019)
Walt Disney
Animator and entrepreneur (1901-1966)
Walt Whitman
Poet and essayist (1819-1892)
Wanda Landowska
Polish harpsichordist (1879-1959)
Wangari Maathai
Kenyan activist (1940-2011)
Warren Buffett
Washington Irving
Writer and historian (1783-1859)
Wayne Gretzky
Wendy Wunder
Author
Will Durant
Willa Cather
Novelist (1873-1947)
William A. Ward
Motivational writer (1921-1994)
William Arthur Ward
Motivational writer (1921-1994)
William Blake
English poet and painter (1757-1827)
William Carlos Williams
William Faulkner
Nobel Prize-winning writer (1897-1962)
William Hazlitt
William James
Philosopher and psychologist (1842-1910)
William Makepeace Thackeray
William McFee
William S. Burroughs
William Saroyan
William Shakespeare
English playwright and poet (c. 1564-1616)
William Somerset Maugham
English novelist and playwright (1874-1965)
Winston Churchill