Pope Saint John XXIII

(born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli,25 November 1881 – 3 June 1963) reigned as Pope from 28 October 1958 to his death in 1963 and was canonized on 27 April 2014…

Epictetus

 (AD c. 55 – 135) was a Greek sage and Stoic philosopher.Philosophy, Epictetus taught, is a way of life and not just a theoretical discipline…

Robert Francis “Bobby” Kennedy

 ( November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968) was a democratic senator from New York, and a noted civil rights activist. An icon of modern American liberalism and younger brother of President John F. Kennedy. From 1961 to 1964, he was the U.S. Attorney General. In March 1968, Kennedy began a campaign for the presidency. On June 5 at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, Kennedy was assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan.

James Brian Jacques

(15 June 1939 – 5 February 2011) was an English writer, best known for his Redwall series of novels and Castaways of the Flying Dutchman series.

John Robert Wooden

 (October , 1910 – June 4, 2010) was an American basketball player and coach. Nicknamed the “Wizard of Westwood”, he won ten NCAA national championships in a 12-year period—seven in a row as head coach at UCLA

Lois Lowry

(born Lois Ann Hammersberg; March 20, 1937) is an American writer credited with more than thirty children’s books.

Nikki Rowe

She was born in the early 1990s and has lived on the Sunshine Coast for almost eight years. She seeks to heal souls and lives with the truth of life found in her heart and is driven by a vision of a world brought together.

Dr. Thema Bryant-Davis

She is a licensed psychologist, poet, dancer, and minister. Dr. Bryant-Davis, an Associate Professor at Pepperdine University, is Past-President of the Society for the Psychology of Women. The North Carolina Arts Council named her Emerging Artist of the Year

Eliezer “Elie” Wiesel

(September 30, 1928 – July 2, 2016) was a Romanian-born Jewish-American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He is the author of 57 books, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz, Buna, and Buchenwald concentration camps. Wiesel is also the Advisory Board chairman of the Algemeiner Journal newspaper.