Everything changes.

Nothing lasts.

You are not alone.

To those who offered an immortal contribution to the human project.

To the Astronauts: Neil Armstrong

To the Magicians: Harry Houdini , James Randi

To the Comedians: George Carlin , Groucho Marx , Lenny Bruce , Lucille Ball , Patrice O'Neal , Richard Pryor , Robin Williams

To the Inventors: Alexander Graham Bell , Buckminster Fuller , Enzo Ferrari , Henry Bessemer , Henry Ford , Leonardo da Vinci , Nikola Tesla , Steve Jobs , Thomas Edison

To the Artists: Andy Warhol , Anne Truitt , Ansel Adams , Frank Gelett Burgess , Frida Kahlo , Georgia O'Keeffe , Jean Michel Basquiat , Louise Bourgeois , Maurits Cornelis Escher , Milton Glaser , Pablo Picasso , Salvador Dali , Vincent Van Gogh , Yousuf Karsh

To the Scientists: Albert Hofmann , Albert Einstein , Alan Turing , Alexander Fleming , Alexander Shulgin , Carl Sagan , David Bohm , E. O. Wilson , Edward Teller , Enrico Fermi , Ernest Rutherford , Erwin Schrodinger , George Gamow , Grace Hopper , Heinz von Foerster , Isaac Newton , J. Robert Oppenheimer , James Clerk Maxwell , Leo Szilard , Ludwig Boltzmann , Marie Curie , Marvin Minsky , Mary Somerville , Max Planck , Michael Faraday , Niels Bohr , Paul Dirac , Richard Feynman , Richard Lewontin , Robert Gordon Wasson , Stephen Hawking , Stephen Jay Gould , Werner Heisenberg , Wolfgang Pauli

To the Stoics: Marcus Aurelius , Gaius Musonius Rufus , Seneca , Zeno of Tarsus

To the Existentialists: Albert Camus , Friedrich Nietzsche , Fyodor Dostoevsky , Maurice Merleau-Ponty , Martin Heidegger , Simone De Beauvoir , Søren Kierkegaard

To the Psychologists: Abraham Maslow , Albert Ellis , BF Skinner , Carl Jung , Carl Rogers , Erich Fromm , Erik Erikson , Ernest Becker , Frantz Fanon , Ivan Pavlov , Jean Piaget , Karen Horney , Sigmund Freud , Ulric Neisser , Viktor Frankl , Wilhelm Wundt , William James

To the Musicians: Billie Holiday , Bob Marley , Chuck Berry , David Bowie , Duke Ellington , Ella Fitzgerald , Ernest Bloch , Frank Sinatra , Frank Zappa , Franz Liszt , Freddie Mercury , Frédéric Chopin , George Harrison , James Brown , Janis Joplin , Jim Morrison , Jimi Hendrix , Johann Sebastian Bach , John Lennon , Johnny Cash , Josephine Baker , Kurt Cobain , Leonard Cohen , Ludwig van Beethoven , Marvin Gaye , Miles Davis , Pete Seeger , Prince , Ravi Shankar , The Notorious B.I.G. , Thelonious Monk , Tom Petty , Tupac Shakur , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

To the Poets: Alain LeRoy Locke , Allen Ginsberg , Alfred Tennyson , Anatole France , Anna Akhmatova , Anne Sexton , Arthur Rimbaud , Charles Baudelaire , Charles Bukowski , Christina Rossetti , Czeslaw Milosz , Dante Alighieri , Delmore Schwartz , Derek Walcott , Diane di Prima , Dorothy Parker , Dylan Thomas , E. E. Cummings , Elizabeth Browning , Emily Dickinson , Ezra Pound , Faiz Ahmed Faiz , Federico García Lorca , Ferdowsi , Frederic W.H. Myers , Gabriela Mistral , Geoffrey Chaucer , Giuseppe Ungaretti , Gwendolyn Brooks , Hafiz , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , Ikkyu , Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe , John Donne , John Keats , John Milton , Kabir Das , Khalil Gibran , Langston Hughes , Lord Byron , Mary Oliver , Matthew Arnold , Maya Angelou , Octavio Paz , Ogden Nash , Oscar Wilde , Pablo Neruda , Percy Bysshe Shelley , Philip Larkin , Rabindranath Tagore , Rainer Maria Rilke , Robert Frost , Robert Hayden , Robert Lowell , Rumi , Ryokan Taigu , Salvatore Quasimodo , Shel Silverstein , Sylvia Plath , T.S. Eliot , Ted Hughes , Terrence McKenna , Theodore Roethke , Tomas Tranströmer , Tristan Tzara , Vicente Aleixandre , Virgil , W. B. Yeats , Wallace Stevens , Walt Whitman , William Blake , William Carlos Williams , William Cowper , William Shakespeare , William Wordsworth , Wislawa Szymborska

To the Occultists: Aleister Crowley , Austin Osman Spare , Dion Fortune , Éliphas Lévi , Franz Bardon , Giordano Bruno , Hermes Trismegistus , Jack Parsons , Lois Bourne , Madame Blavatsky , Manly P. Hall , Samael Aun Weor , Sybil Leek , William Robert Woodman , William Wynn Westcott

To the Chefs: Anthony Bourdain , Julia Childs

To the Naturalists: Charles Darwin , Henry David Thoreau , John Muir , Steve Irwin

To the Explorers: Jacques Cousteau , Junko Tabei

To the Martial Artists: Bruce Lee , Kano Jigoro , Helio Gracie , Miyamoto Musashi , Morihei Ueshiba

To the Journalists: Edward Murrow , H. L. Mencken , Katharine Graham , Walter Cronkite

To the Mathematicians: Benoit Mandelbrot , Blaise Pascal , Carl Friedrich Gauss , Henri Poincaré , John von Neumann , Kurt Gödel

To the Directors: Akira Kurosawa , Alfred Hitchcock , Ingmar Bergman , Maya Deren , Orson Welles , Stanley Kubrick

To the Theologians: Anselm of Canterbury , Augustine of Hippo , John Henry Newman , Martin Luther , Mircea Eliade , Thomas Aquinas

To the Generals: Carl von Clausewitz , George Patton , George Washington , Ghenghis Khan , Hannibal , Napoleon Bonaparte , Sitting Bull , Tecumseh , Thucydides

To the Economists: Adam Smith , Friedrich Hayek , John Maynard Keynes , Ludwig von Mises

To the Greek Tragedians: Aeschylus , Euripides , Sophocles

To the Athletes: Althea Gibson , Arthur Ashe , Jackie Robinson , Joe DiMaggio , Kobe Bryant , Mickey Mantle , Muhammad Ali , Ted Williams , Ty Cobb , Wilt Chamberlain , Yogi Berra

To the Actors: Carrie Fisher , Cary Grant , Chadwick Boseman , Charlie Chaplin , Douglas Fairbanks , Elizabeth Taylor , Fred Rogers , Heath Ledger , Hedy Lamarr , Humphrey Bogart , James Dean , John Wayne , Marilyn Monroe , Marlon Brando , Paul Newman , Sean Connery , Sidney Poitier

To the Capitalists: Andrew Carnegie , Clayton Christensen , Coco Chanel , Cornelius Vanderbilt , David Ogilvy , Estee Lauder , J.P. Morgan , John D. Rockefeller , Leo Burnett , P.T. Barnum , Tony Hsieh , Walt Disney

To the Teachers: Adi Shankara , Ajahn Chah , Anandamayi Ma , Anthony De Mello , Aryadeva , Baba Nanak , Bob Ross , Bodhidharma , Chögyam Trungpa , Hakuin Ekaku , Jesus of Nazareth , Mahasi Sayadaw , Lalleshwari , Meera , Milarepa , Mirra Alfassa , Padampa Sangye , Padmasambhava , Papaji , Paramahansa Yogananda , Ram Dass , Ramakrishna Paramahamsa , Ramana Maharshi , Shunryu Suzuki Roshi , Siddhartha Gautama , Sri Swami Satchidananda , Swami Vivekananda , Thich Nhat Hanh , Timothy Leary , Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche , Zoroaster

To the Leaders: Abraham Lincoln , Alexander Hamilton , Alexander The Great , Ben Franklin , Benazir Bhutto , Benjamin Disraeli , Booker T. Washington , Catherine the Great , Cesare Borgia , Charlemagne , Charles de Gaulle , Che Guevara , Colin Powell , Crazy Horse , Desmond Tutu , Dwight D. Eisenhower , Elenor Roosevelt , Florence Nightingale , Franklin D. Roosevelt , Frederick Douglass , Gandhi , Geronimo , Harriet Tubman , Henry Ward Beecher , Huey Newton , Jane Adamms , John Adams , John Jay , John Lewis , John McCain , Malcolm X , Malidoma Patrice Somé , Marcus Tullius Cicero , Margaret Sanger , Margaret Thatcher , Martin Luther King Jr , Mary Parker Follett , Rosa Parks , Ruth Bader Ginsburg , Samuel Adams , Sarojini Naidu , Saul Alinsky , Shirley Chisholm , Sojourner Truth , Thomas Jefferson , Thomas Woodrow Wilson , Wangari Maathai , William Jennings Bryan , Winston Churchill

To the Philosophers: Alfred North Whitehead , Alexis de Tocqueville , Alan Watts , Aristotle , Arthur Schopenhauer , Aurobindo Ghose , Auguste Comte , Baruch Spinoza , Bertrand Russell , Boethius , Claude Lévi-Strauss , Confucius , D.T. Suzuki , David Hume , Denis Diderot , Dogen Zenji , Douglas Harding , Edith Stein , Edmund Burke , Edmund Husserl , Émile Durkheim , Epictetus , Erasmus , Ferdinand de Saussure , Francis Bacon , Friedrich Engels , G. K. Chesterton , Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , George Berkeley , George Gurdjieff , Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz , Hannah Arendt , Henri Bergson , Henri Lefebvre , Henry Sidgwick , Heraclitus , Herbert Marcuse , Herbert Spencer , Immanuel Kant , Inayat Khan , Ivan Illich , Jacques Lacan , James P. Carse , Jean de La Bruyère , Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Jean-Paul Sartre , Jeremy Benthem , Jiddu Krishnamurti , John Dewey , John Locke , John Rawls , John Stuart Mill , José Ortega y Gasset , Ju Mipham , Karl Marx , Karl Popper , Lao Tzu , Leo Strauss , Lucretius , Ludwig Wittgenstein , Machiavelli , Margaret Mead , Marshall McLuhan , Michel de Montaigne , Mikhail Bakhtin , Montesquieu , Moses Maimonides , Mozi , Nagarjuna , Niklas Luhmann , Parmenides , Pierre Bayle , Plato , Plutarch , Pythagoras , Ralph Waldo Emerson , Rene Girard , Robert Nozick , Simone Weil , Socrates , Sun Tzu , Theodor Adorno , Thomas Hobbes , U. G. Krishnamurti , Voltaire , Walter Benjamin , Xenophon , Xun Kuang , Zhuang Zhou

To the Writers: Agatha Christie , Aldous Huxley , Alexander Dumas , Alexander Pushkin , Alexander Solzhenitsyn , André Breton , Anthony Burgess , Anton Chekhov , Arthur Miller , August Strindberg , Baltasar Gracián , C.S. Lewis , Carlos Castaneda , Carlos Ruiz Zafón , Charles Dickens , Charlotte Brontë , Charles M. Schulz , Chinua Achebe , Christopher Hitchens , D.H. Lawrence , Dale Carnegie , David Foster Wallace , David Graeber , Doreen Valiente , Douglas Adams , Dr. Seuss , E. L. Doctorow , E.M. Forster , Earl Nightingale , Edgar Allan Poe , Elbert Hubbard , Elie Wiesel , Enid Blyton , Ernest Hemingway , François de La Rochefoucauld , François Mauriac , Frank Herbert , Franz Kafka , Gabriel Garcia Marquez , Gary Halbert , George Bernard Shaw , George Eliot , George Orwell , Gertrude Stein , Gustave Flaubert , H.G. Wells , Hans Christian Andersen , Harold Bloom , Helen Keller , Henry James , Herman Melville , Hermann Hesse , Honoré de Balzac , Hunter S Thompson , Isaac Asimov , Israel Regardie , J.R.R Tolkein , Jack Kerouac , Jack London , James Baldwin , James Joyce , Jane Austen , Joan Didion , John Steinbeck , John Updike , Jonathan Swift , Jorge Luis Borges , Joseph Campbell , Joseph Heller , Joyce Cary , Jules Verne , Jun'ichiro Tanizaki , Ken Kesey , Kurt Vonnegut , Leo Tolstoy , Lewis Carroll , Marcel Proust , Margot Adler , Mark Twain , Maurice Sendak , Miguel de Cervantes , Mikhail Bulgakov , Nadine Gordimer , Napoleon Hill , Nathaniel Hawthorne , Nikolai Gogol , Nikos Kazantzakis , Norman Mailer , Og Mandino , Philip Roth , Ralph Ellison , Raymond Buckland , Robert Anton Wilson , Roberto Bolan , Roger Ebert , Roger Zelazny , Rudyard Kipling , Samuel Beckett , Samuel Johnson , Sophocles , Stan Lee , Susan Sontag , Tennessee Williams , Terry Pratchett , Thomas Hardy , Thomas Mann , Thomas Pynchon , Tom Wolfe , Toni Morrison , Truman Capote , Umberto Eco , Upton Sinclair , Ursula K. Le Guin , Virginia Woolf , Vladimir Nabokov , W.E.B Du Bois , Walter Lippmann , Wayne Dyer , William S. Burroughs , William Faulkner , William Gaddis , William Golding , Yasunari Kawabata , Zig Ziegler , Zora Neale Hurston