Clive Staples Lewis (1898 - 1963) C. S Lewis was a British novelist, poet, academic, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, broadcaster and lecturer. Born in Belfast in Ulster, Ireland, before partition, he held academic positions in English literature at both Oxford University  and Cambridge University. Lewis wrote more than 30 books including  The Chronicles of Narnia, The Screwtape Letters and The Space Trilogy, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, including Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain.

In 1957, Albert Camus (November 7, 1913–January 4, 1960) became the second youngest laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded to him for work that “with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times.”.........................Click to read more

Maya Angelou (1928-2014) American writer, poet, singer, and civil rights activist.

Shortly before his sixtieth birthday and a decade after issuing his immensely prescient admonition that America, if eligible at all to downfall and ruin, is eligible within herself, not without," Whitman writes under the heading “DEMOCRACY IN THE NEW WORLD”:....Click to read more

Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882-1927)  Founder of the Sufi Order in the West and teacher of Universal Sufism - Born in India.

“Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life.” Read more 

Joseph Campbell (1904 - 1987) American Professor of Literature at Sarah Lawrence College . Worked in comparative mythology and comparative religion covering many aspects of the human experience. 

Arthur Ashe (1943 - 1993) American professional tennis player who won three Grand Slam titles

Mother Teresa (1910 -1997)  Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary. She was born in Skopje, then part of the Kosovo Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire. After living in Macedonia for eighteen years she moved to Ireland and then to India, where she lived for most of her life. More

Thomas Carlyle - (1795 - 1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist,  historian, mathematician, and teacher. 

“The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer. There are many men who feel a kind of twister pride in cynicism; there are many who confine themselves to criticism of the way others do what they themselves dare not even attempt.” .....Theodore Roosevelt. Click here to read more

“Awe is the moment when ego surrenders to wonder. This is our inheritance - the beauty before us. We cry. We cry out. There is nothing sentimental about facing the desert bare. It is a terrifying beauty.”   Read more