You can't really love someone else unless you really love yourself first. - Fred Rogers

I must be an emotional archaeologist because I keep looking for the roots of things, particularly the roots of behavior and why I feel certain ways about certain things.

The way you would draw a tree is different from the way anyone else would draw a tree — and that’s the way it’s supposed to be!

Play is really the work of childhood. One of the most important gifts a parent can give a child is the gift of accepting that child's uniqueness. When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.