Quotes from Fred Rogers

Children aren't responsible for wars.

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 don't want to eat anything that has a mother

Development comes from within. Nature does not hurry but advances slowly.

I'm fairly convinced that the Kingdom of God is for the broken-hearted. You write of 'powerlessness.' Join the club, we are not in control. God is.

What interests me so much about the characters of the Bible is that they make mistakes but God uses them anyway, in important ways. Nobody's perfect, but God can even use our imperfection.

The kingdom of God is for the broken hearted

I've always wanted to have a neighbor just like you. I've always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you.

I feel the greatest gift we can give to anybody is the gift of our honest self.

It's not the honors and not the titles and not the power that is of ultimate importance. It's what resides inside.

You bring all you ever were and are to any relationship you have today.

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.

It would have been sad for me to spend my life just trying to superimpose stuff on people rather than trying to encourage them to look within themselves for what's of value.

What matters in this life is more than winning for ourselves. What really matters is helping others win too. Even if it means slowing down and changing our course now and then.

How many times have you noticed that it's the little quiet moments in the midst of life that seem to give the rest extra-special meaning?

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

The real issue in life is not how many blessings we have, but what we do with our blessings. Some people have many blessings and hoard them. Some have few and give everything away.

I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.

I believe that those of us who are the producers and purveyors of television, I believe that we are the servants of this nation.

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.

Life is deep and simple, and what our society gives us is shallow and complicated.

The purpose of life is to listen - to yourself, to your neighbor, to your world and to God and, when the time comes, to respond in as helpful a way as you can find ... from within and without.

Our worlds needs more time to wonder and reflect but there is too much fast paced constant distraction.

Real strength has to do with helping others.