Greg Norman's Parents

"I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father." -- Greg Norman

"Joy is prayer—Joy is strength—Joy is love—Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls." — Mother Teresa

"A mother understands what a child does not say." — Jewish proverb

"Joy is prayer. Joy is strength. Joy is love. Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls." -- Mother Teresa

"Is it better to be the lover or the loved one? Neither, if your cholesterol is over six hundred. By love, of course, I refer to romantic love -- the love between man and woman, rather than between mother and child, or a boy and his dog, or two headwaiters." -- Woody Allen (1935 - ), Without Feathers, via Dog News

"The best way to show our gratitude . . . is to accept everything with joy." -- Mother Teresa

"My mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general, if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso." -- Pablo Picasso

"Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living." -- Mother Jones

Peace | "Peace begins with a smile." - Mother Teresa

Deception | "Necessity is the mother of deception." -- Belle Sarnoff

"It is a great poverty to decide that a child must die that you may live as you wish." -- Mother Teresa, via blogs4God.com

Writing | "If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode to a Graecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies." -- William Faulkner

"There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough." -- Mother Teresa

"Habits are the daugthers of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous." -- Jeremy Taylor

"To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it." -- Mother Teresa