FAMOUS QUOTES TO USE AS STIMULUS MATERIAL IN TEACHING

Mother Teresa on Death

"I look forward to dying very much…What could be more wonderful than the prospect of spending an eternity with God and being in Heaven?"

Sunday Times September 7 1997 quoting 1992

Sinead O’Connor on Fame

After tearing up a picture of John Paul II she was booed off the stage at a Bob Dylan tribute. O’Connor now says she has reached maturity.

"Fame is a curse…It was the worst phase of my life, which I thank God I’ll never have to go through again. I think we all have to go through that dark night of the soul, and I’m just grateful I got mine over with when I was young"

The West Australian Magazine September 6 1997

Sean Penn on Family

"Family makes me feel there’s a reason I’m alive…I’m feeling my life, which I didn’t always do partly because I’d be drunk a lot"

The West Australian Magazine September 6 1997

Mother Teresa to Diana

During Diana’s visit to the motherhouse "she openly cried twice", once when she was handed Mother Teresa’s personal message to her: " Be one heart full of love in the heart of Jesus and Mary. God bless you." The second time was inside the chapel when nuns sang the hymn "Make your life something beautiful for God," which Mother herself wrote.

Record September 4 1997