Tiffany

“His lesson is as simple and direct as Fred was: Human kindness will always make life better.”
― Maxwell King, The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers

“Let people know how you feel.” This is Rogers’s signature message: feelings are all right, whatever is mentionable is manageable, however confusing and scary life may become. Even with death and loss and pain, it’s okay to feel all of it, and then go on.
Fred Rogers”
― Maxwell King, The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers

“You can’t build a house without nails and wood. If you don’t want a house built, hide the nails and wood. If you don’t want a man unhappy politically, don’t give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war. If the government is inefficient, top-heavy, and tax-mad, better it be all those than that people worry over it. Peace, Montag. Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of ‘facts’ they feel stuffed, but absolutely ‘brilliant’ with information. Then they’ll feel they’re thinking, they’ll get a sense of motion without moving. And they’ll be happy, because facts of that sort don’t change. Don’t give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy. Any man who can take a TV wall apart and put it back together again, and most men can nowadays, is happier than any man who tries to slide-rule, measure, and equate the universe, which just won't be measured or equated without making man feel bestial and lonely. I know, I've tried it; to hell with it.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“If I'd had any idea of the damage I was about to do to my future, I would have spun around on that ridge as fast as I could have, and scooted right back where I come from. But I knew nothing of what was at stake. I was just a child who thought she was embarking on a great adventure.”
― Authur Golden