It’s not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It’s the knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of our very being is good stuff.
Fred McFeely Rogers (1928-2003) American educator, minister, songwriter, television host (a.k.a. "Mister Rogers")
Commencement Address, Middlebury College (May 2001)
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