• "The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice."

    Peggy O’ Mara, editor & publisher

  • "Love isn't 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, creator of the preschool TV show Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood on PBS. (He will always be in my heart)

  • "Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk."

    Carl Jung, Swiss psychologist

  • "In grade school they say you have to pick a profession and stick to it...and people stop looking at their lives as a work in progress. If you don't stay in touch with yourself, you kind of lose focus. If you're going to spend a life in the arts, you need to be infused with a sense of gratitude and a sense of wonder. It's a privilege to do this profession. But there is a payment you have to make for that privilege, which is to do your best all the time. To challenge yourself.”

    Ethan Hawk, actor

  • “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” 

    Maya Angelou, poet & civil rights activist