Like a Drop in the Ocean

Even though she never bore a child physically, Gonxha Agnes Bojaxhiu deserves the name by which everyone knows her: Mother Teresa of Calcutta. Her sayings reveal the qualities that we treasure in every mother: playfulness, compassion, humility, calmness, even handedness, and the ability to reprove wrongdoing with firmness and love and to maintain a sense of humor even in the most dire circumstances.