Mother Teresa found her work with the Missionaries of Charity (which she founded in 1950) understandably exhausting. "I know God won't give me anything I can't handle," she once remarked. "I just wish he didn't trust me so much!"

["An order of nuns is trying to copyright Mother Teresa's name and likeness in an effort to stop the illegal marketing of Mother Teresa's image," Conan O'Brien announced in June 2003. "The nuns decided to take this action right after they saw an infomercial for the Mother Teresa Thighmaster."]