Quotes from Fred Rogers

Most of us, I believe, admire strength... Sometimes, though, I wonder if we confuse strength with other words like aggression or even violence.

For a couple with young children, divorce seldom comes as a "solution" to stress, only as a way to end one form of pain and accept another.

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.

There is no normal life that is free of pain. It's the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth.

The real drama of life is never centerstage. It's always in the wings.

We all have only one life to live on Earth, and through television we have the choice of encouraging others to demean this life or to cherish it in creative, imaginative ways.

The best teacher in the world is someone who loves what he or she does, and just loves it in front of you.

I feel that the real drama of life is never center stage, it's always in the wings. It's never with the spotlight on, it's usually something that you don't expect at all.

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

Who you are inside is what helps you make and do everything in life.

I believe it's a fact of life that what we have is less important than what we make out of what we have.

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?

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.'

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.

Imagining may be the first step in making it happen, but it takes the real time and real efforts of real people to learn things, make things, turn thoughts into deeds or visions into inventions.

To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.

It's important to know when we need to stop, reflect, and receive. In our competitive world, that might be called a waste of time.

A love of learning has a lot to do with learning that we are loved.

Human beings need to feel that they are lovable and capable of loving.

Love begins with listening.

All I know to do is to light the candle that has been given to me.

Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others.

Love isn't a state of perfect caring, it is an active noun like struggle.

There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.