“Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.”
“My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'”
| Diane Ackerman, Poet (1948) |
| Sherman Alexie, Writer (1966) |
| Henry Alford, Clergyman (1810) |
| June Allyson, Actress (1917) |
| Amiri Baraka, Poet (1934) |
| Cotton Fitzsimmons, Coach (1931) |
| Clive James, Writer (1939) |
| Elizabeth Janeway, Author (1913) |
| William Samuel Johnson, Politician (1727) |
| Thomas Keneally, Novelist (1935) |
| Wally George, Celebrity (2003) |
| Natalia Ginzburg, (1991) |
| Radclyffe Hall, Poet (1943) |
| Johnny Kidd, Musician (1966) |