Fred Rogers
It's not the honors and not the titles and not the power that is of ultimate importance. It's what resides inside.Collection: Power
How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.Collection: Sad
Just because somebody wants to be alone sometimes, it doesn't mean they don't love you.Collection: Alone
The more we can be in a relationship with those who might seem strange to us, the more we can feel like we're neighbors and all members of the human family.Collection: Family
If the day ever came when we were able to accept ourselves and our children exactly as we and they are, then, I believe, we would have come very close to an ultimate understanding of what 'good' parenting means.Collection: Parenting
Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.Collection: Work
Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.Collection: Health
I saw this new thing called television, and I saw people throwing pies in each other's faces, and I thought, 'This could be a wonderful tool for education! Why is it being used this way?' So I said to my parents, 'You know, I don't think I'll go into seminary right away. I think I'll go into television.'Collection: Education
Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.Collection: Future
The space between the television set and the viewer is holy ground.Collection: Space
The number 143 means 'I love you.' It takes one letter to say 'I' and four letters to say 'love' and three letters to say 'you.' One hundred and forty-three. 'I love you.' Isn't that wonderful?
One of the most important gifts a parent can give a child is the gift of accepting that child's uniqueness.
When we look for what's best in the person we happen to be with at the moment, we're doing what God does, so in appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something truly sacred.
When I was very young, most of my childhood heroes wore capes, flew through the air, or picked up buildings with one arm. They were spectacular and got a lot of attention. But as I grew, my heroes changed, so that now I can honestly say that anyone who does anything to help a child is a hero to me.
The underlying message of the Neighborhood is that if somebody cares about you, it's possible that you'll care about others. 'You are special, and so is your neighbor' - that part is essential: that you're not the only special person in the world. The person you happen to be with at the moment is loved, too.
I think everybody longs to be loved and longs to know that he or she is lovable. And, consequently, the greatest thing that we can do is to help somebody know that they're loved and capable of loving.
To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.
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.'
I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.
I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.
Love isn't a perfect state of caring. It's an active noun, like 'struggle.'
Deep and simple are far, far more important than shallow and complicated and fancy.
In my own life, as the nearer I get to the end of life on this earth, the simpler I want to become.
When I first saw children's television, I thought it was perfectly horrible. And I thought there was some way of using this fabulous medium to be of nurture to those who would watch and listen.
The world is not always a kind place. That's something all children learn for themselves, whether we want them to or not, but it's something they really need our help to understand.
You know, you don't have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable.
All of us have special ones who have loved us into being.
I do think that young children can spot a phony a mile away.
Human beings need to feel that they are lovable and capable of loving.
The whole idea is to look at the television camera and present as much love as you possibly could to a person who might feel that he or she needs it.
I believe that those of us who are the producers and purveyors of television, I believe that we are the servants of this nation.
Children aren't responsible for wars.
I don't think that the basics that kids need have changed in 10,000 years.
You make each day a special day. You know how, by just your being you.Collection: Friendship
There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.Collection: Life
Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else.Collection: Kids
If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.Collection: Motivational
As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has-or ever will have-something inside that is unique to all time.Collection: Inspirational
Some days, doing "the best we can" may still fall short of what we would like to be able to do, but life isn't perfect on any front-and doing what we can with what we have is the most we should expect of ourselves or anyone else.Collection: Fall
We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say "It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem." Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.Collection: Children
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." To this day, especially in times of "disaster," I remember my mother's words and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers – so many caring people in this world.Collection: Mother
Attitudes are caught, not taught.Collection: Attitude
The greatest gift that you can give another person is to gracefully receive whatever it is that they want to give us.Collection: Giving
Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered . . . just one kind word to another person.Collection: Real
In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.Collection: Inspirational
Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.Collection: Memorial Day
When we love a person, we accept him or her exactly as is: the lovely with the unlovely, the strong with the fearful, the true mixed in with the façade, and of course, the only way we can do it is by accepting ourselves that way.Collection: Strong
Love begins with listening.Collection: Christian
At the center of the Universe is a loving heart that continues to beat and that wants the best for every person. Anything that we can do to help foster the intellect and spirit and emotional growth of our fellow human beings, that is our job. Those of us who have this particular vision must continue against all odds. Life is for service.Collection: Jobs
It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor. Would you be mine; could you be mine?Collection: Beautiful