"It is in pardoning that we are pardoned."

Francis of Assisi
(09/26/1181 – 10/03/1226)
Umbrian saint

"Henry James had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it."

T. S. Eliot
(09/26/1888 – 01/04/1965)
US writer

"The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another."

J. Frank Dobie
(09/26/1888 – 09/18/1964)
US writer

"One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge."

Robert Staughton Lynd
(09/26/1892 – 11/01/1970)
US writer

"Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy."

Pope Paul VI
(09/26/1897 – 08/06/1978)
Italian religious leader

"Why should I limit myself to only one woman when I can have as many women as I want?"

George Gershwin
(09/26/1898 – 07/11/1937)
US composer (brother of Ira)

"I can't die. It would ruin my image."

Jack LaLanne
(09/26/1914 – )
US exercise maven

"I didn't choose a word or anything. I just wrote the song until it stopped."

Marty Robbins
(09/26/1925 – 12/08/1982)
US singer, songwriter

"Voyager, there are no bridges, one builds them as one walks."

Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua
(09/26/1942 – 05/16/2004)
US-Chicana writer

"The only weights I lift are my dogs."

Olivia Newton-John
(09/26/1948 – )
Australian singer, actor

"Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for."

Jane Smiley
(09/26/1949 – )
US writer

"They found me basically dead, not breathing, with the gearshift through my chest, and of all the people I'd known and played with, David [Bowie] was the only one who came to the hospital during all that time."

Tony Sales
(09/26/1951 – )
US bassist (Utopia, Stooges, Tin Machine) (son of Soupy Sales)

"My husband is the sexiest man in the world."

Linda Hamilton
(09/26/1956 – )
US actor