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My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn... If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year's time.
I chose to take the oath of office with my personal copy of the Bhagavad Gita because its teachings have inspired me to be a servant-leader, dedicating my life in the service of others and to my country.
| Tori Amos, Musician (1963) |
| Henri Cartier-Bresson, Photographer (1908) |
| Claude Debussy, Composer (1862) |
| Julius J. Epstein, Dramatist (1909) |
| Charles Fillmore, Educator (1854) |
| Valerie Harper, Actress (1940) |
| Peter James, Writer (1948) |
| Nina Bawden, Writer (2012) |
| Charles W. Eliot, Educator (1926) |
| Charles William Eliot, Educator (1926) |
| James T. Farrell, Novelist (1979) |
| Luc Ferrari, Composer (2005) |
| Eric Johnston, Businessman (1963) |
| Jack Layton, Politician (2011) |
| Jerry Leiber, Musician (2011) |


