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"We Are Made of Music, We Are Made of Time: Violinist Natalie Hodges on the Poetic Science of Sound and Feeling".  Read more

Henry Ward Beecher (1813 – 1887) was an American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, his emphasis on God's love and a novel oratorical style in which he employed humor, dialect, and slang. He was thought to be the most famous preacher in the nation. Read more

The quote is from his "Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit" (1887)

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 other works (His name is sometimes spelled Kahlil)

Quote source: From the poem "A Tear And A Smile"

Wayne W. Dyer (1940 - 2015) was an American motivational speaker as well as a self-help and spiritual author. He wrote dozens of books. His first book, "Your Erroneous Zones, sold over 100 million copies and is considered one of the best selling books of all times.
Photo by Phil Konstantin

Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) - Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr. was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film and became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, the Tramp..,. Read more 

Edmund Burke ( 1729 – 1797)  British and Irish statesman, economist, and philosopher. Born in Dublin, Burke served as a member of parliament in the House of Commons of Great Britain with the Whig Party. He was a proponent of underpinning virtues with manners in society and of the importance of religious institutions for the moral stability and good of the state. Read more

Image: Studio of Sir Joshua Reynolds, (1771) Public domain

Toni Morrison (1931 - 2019) - American writer and poet, born in Lorain, Ohio,  She received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.

Albert Camus ~ (November 7, 1913 – January 4, 1960) French philosopher, author, and journalist.

Attributed to Gil Stern

Mark Twain - Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name, Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, publisher, and lecturer.

Note: This quote was included on a multi-volume biography of Mark Twain which was published by his friend Albert Bigelow Paine in 1912.

Helen Rowland - (1875–1950) American journalist and humorist. She wrote a column in the New York World for many years, called "Reflections of a Bachelor Girl". Many of her pithy insights from these columns were published in book form, including Reflections of a Bachelor Girl (1909), The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor (1915), and A Guide to Men (1922).

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)  Einstein wrote these words while on a lecture tour in Japan in 1922 just as he learned of his Nobel Prize in physics. Reportedly, he didn't have money to tip a bellboy or receiving a tip was not customary. So Einstein gave the bellboy the note instead. Someone paid over $1.5 million for the piece of paper in 2017