Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865) The 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in April 1865

Plato - (428 ~ 347 BC) Athenian philosopher during Ancient Greece's Classical period. He was the founder of the Platonist school of thought, and the Academy, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.

Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993) American multi-instrumentalist musician, bandleader and composer.

William Faulkner (1897 - 1962) American writer and Nobel Prize laureate. Faulkner 's literary works included novels, poetry, short stories, essays, screen plays, and a play. This quote is from his novel Absalom, Absalom! published in 1936

Photo credit: Carl Van Vechten

Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879, - April 18, 1955)

Oscar Wilde - (October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900) Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet.(Picture by W. and D. Downey - From Wikimedia Commons)

Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) German-born poet, novelist, and painter. Much of his writings explores the individual's search for authenticity, self-knowledge and spirituality. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946.

James R. Sherman

Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) American poet, philosopher and essayist.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909

Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879, - April 18, 1955) - Source: Walter Isaacson presented this less precise translation of Einstein’s remark in the epigraph of his biography. (Credit Quote Investigator website)

Khalil Gibran (1883 - 1931) Lebanese-American poet and writer. He was the author of The Prophet, The Broken Wings , Beloved, The Three Ants and many others (His name is sometimes spelled Kahlil)

Sleeping at noon
the body of the Blue Heron
poised in nobility

Earl Mines, Professor of Japanese at Princeton
University. Japan linked poetry
Princeton University Press, 1979

Winston Churchill (1874-1965)  British politician, army officer, and writer. 

Treplion's last speech in Chekov's , the Sea Gull.
"I'm coming and more to the conclusion
that it's a not thinking at all of what form to
choose, writes because it comes pouring
out from his soul."

Thomas Edison - (1847-1931) American inventor and businessman. He invented many devices in fields such as electric power generation, communication, sound recording, and motion pictures.

Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879, - April 18, 1955)

Source: Albert Einstein: a documentary biography, Carl Seelig (1956), p. 194.

Life
is like a butterfly
whatever it is.

Alex Kerr, Lost Japan
Lonely Planet Publishers 1996

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 -1900) German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist, and a Latin and Greek scholar.

Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879, - April 18, 1955)