Fred Rogers Quotes

I'm fairly convinced that the Kingdom of God is for the broken-hearted. You write of 'powerlessness....

Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future an...

Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.

I believe that at the center of the universe there dwells a loving spirit who longs for all that’s b...

You are a very special person. There is only one like you in the whole world. There's never been any...

Life is for service.

I can put on a hat, or put on a coat,Or wear a pair of glasses or sail a boat. I can change all my n...

We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are.

Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.

[I]f we can bring our children understanding, comfort, and hopefulness when they need this kind of s...

What's been important in my understanding of myself and others is the fact that each one of us is so...

Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see...

We need to help people to discover the true meaning of love. Love is generally confused with depende...

The older I get, the more I seem to be able to appreciate my "neighbor" (whomever I happen to be wit...

In the external scheme of things, shining moments are as brief as the twinkling of an eye, yet such ...

Most of us, I believe, admire strength. It's something we tend to respect in others, desire for ours...

It's very dramatic when two people come together to work something out. It's easy to take a gun and ...

Music is the one art we all have inside. We may not be able to play an instrument, but we can sing a...

A high school student wrote to ask, "What was the greatest event in American history?" I can't say. ...

It's the people we love the most who can make us feel the gladdest ... and the maddest! Love and ang...

In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our heart...

Mutual caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other's a...

Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors.

Taking care is one way to show your love. Another way is letting people take good care of you when y...

Pretending doesn't require expensive toys.

Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into th...

When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than...

The connections we make in the course of a life--maybe that's what heaven is.

I wonder what memories of yours will persist as you go on in life. My hunch is that the most importa...

Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When ...

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the ...

It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood,A beautiful day for a neighbor.Would you be mine?Could you...

How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is se...