"I have tried to encourage children to love and care for themselves and to love the parents who care for them. That’s the way true neighborliness grows — loving others as we first loved ourselves."

- Fred Rogers

"Love is not merely a feeling but an enacted emotion. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now, and to go on caring through joyful times and through times that may bring us pain."

- Fred Rogers

"Love is not a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like ‘struggle.’ To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now."

- Fred Rogers

"Grandparents are both our past and our future. In some ways they are what has gone before, and in others, they are what we will become."

- Fred Rogers

"Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary."

- Fred Rogers