—  Paul Valery, 1871-1945, French poet

—  Wolfgang Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet & philosopher

—  Bob Dylan, 1941-, American singer [Nobel 2016]

—  Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter

—  Laurence J Peter, 1919-1990, Canadian writer & educator

—  Martin Luther King, 1929-1968, American leader in the Civil Rights Movement

—  Joseph Campbell, 1904-1987, American academic

—  Eugene Ionesco, 1912-1994, French-Romanian playwright

—  Wolfgang Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet & philosopher

—  Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter

—  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, 1906-1966, Polish author of maxims

—  Terry Pratchett, 1948-2015, British writer

—  Napoleon Hill, 1883-1970, American self-help writer

—  William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ The Tempest

—  Victor Hugo, 1802-1885, French writer

—  Carl Sandburg, 1878-1967, American poet

—  Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, Wife of the 32nd USA president

—  Eugene O’Neill, 1888-1953, American playwright, Nobel 1936

—  Edgar Cayce, 1877-1945, American mystic & prophet

—  Lou Andreas-Salomé, 1861-1937, Russian-German writer & psychoanalyst

—  Hermann Hesse, 1877-1962, German writer, Nobel 1946

—  Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer

—  Walt Disney, 1901-1966, American businessman & cartoonist

—  Antonio Porchia, 1885-1968, Italian-Argentinian poet

—  Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, American politician & writer

—  Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer

—  Marcel Proust, 1871-1922, French writer

—  Jules Verne, 1826-1905, French writer

—  Antoin de Saint-Exupéry, 1900-1940, French writer

—  Antoin de Saint-Exupéry, 1900-1940, French writer

—  Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849, American writer

—  Walt Disney, 1901-1966, American businessman & cartoonist

—  Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor

—  Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher

—  Fernando Pessoa, 1888-1935, Portuguese poet & writer

—  Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Austrian psychologist, founder of psychoanalysis

—  John Wooden, 1910-2010, American basketball coach

—  Walt Disney, 1901-1966, American businessman & cartoonist

—  Yoko Ono, 1935-, Japanese artist

—  Richard Bach, 1936-, American writer

—  Harvey Mackay, American self-help writer

—  Charles Bukowski, 1920-1994, American writer

—  Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1889-1951, Austrian philosopher

—  Odysseas Elytis, 1911-1996, Greek poet, Nobel 1979

—  Joseph Joubert, 1754-1824, French author of maxims

—  John Steinbeck, 1902-1968, American writer, Nobel 1962

—  Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1880, French writer

—  Edmond Rostand, 1868-1918, French playwright

—  Jean Rostand, 1894-1977, French scientist & philosopher

—  André Malraux, 1901-1976, French writer & statesman

—  Anatole France, 1844-1924, French writer, Nobel 1921

—  Anatole France, 1844-1924, French writer, Nobel 1921

—  William Faulkner, 1897-1962, American writer, Nobel 1949

—  W.H. Auden, 1907-1973, British poet

—  Henry de Montherlant, 1895-1972, French writer

—  D. H. Lawrence, 1885-1930, British writer

—  Hermann Hesse, 1877-1962, German writer, Nobel 1946

—  Jorge Luis Borges, 1899-1986, Argentine writer

—  Maurice Chapelan, 1906-1992, French author of maxims & journalist

—  Philip Roth, 1933-2018, American writer

—  Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1927-2014, Colombian writer

—  Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist

—  Philip Dick, 1928-1982, American sci-fi writer

—  Philip Dick, 1928-1982, American sci-fi writer

—  Sylvia Plath, 1932-1963, American poet & writer

—  Milan Kundera, 1929-2023, Czech writer

—  André Breton, 1896-1966, French writer, founder of Surrealism

—  Susan Sontag, 1933-2004, American writer, critic, activist

—  Joseph Conrad, 1857-1924, British-Polish writer

—  Joseph Conrad, 1857-1924, British-Polish writer

—  Tagore, 1861-1941, Indian poet, Nobel 1913

—  Anais Nin, 1903-1977, French writer

—  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1830-1916, German author of maxims

—  Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849, American writer

—  Lord Byron, 1788-1824, British poet

—  Louise Glück, 1943-2023, American poet, Nobel 2020

—  Antonio Machado, 1875-1939, Spanish poet & playwright

     (waking up)

—  Antonio Machado, 1875-1939, Spanish poet & playwright

—  William Butler Yeats, 1865-1939, Irish poet, Nobel 1923

—  George Carlin, 1936-2008, American comedian

—  Bill Cosby, 1937-, American comedian

—  Mitch Hedberg, 1968-2005, American comedian

—  Steven Wright, 1955-, American comedian

—  Fred Allen, 1894-1956, American comedian

—  Bill Watterson, 1958-, American cartoonist

Ερωτηθείς τι έστιν ελπίς, «Εγρηγορότος», είπεν, «ενύπνιον.»

—  Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher

Και γαρ τ' όναρ εκ Διός εστιν.

—  Homer, c. 800-750 BC, Ancient Greek Poet ‐ Iliad I

Τοις εγρηγορόσιν ένα και κοινόν κόσμον είναι, των δε κοιμωμένων έκαστον εις ίδιον αποστρέφεσθαι.

—  Heraclitus, 544-484 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher

—  from the film The Maltese Falcon (1941)