Fred Rogers

It's a miracle when we finally discover whom we're best equipped to serve.

For children, play is exceedingly seriously & important

When I was a boy I used to think that STRONG meant having big muscles, great physical power; but the longer I live, the more I realize that real strength has much more to do with what is NOT seen. Real strength has to do with helping others.

Real strength has to do with helping others.

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.

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

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

You know, you don't have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable.

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.

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

Play is really the work of childhood.

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

Of course, I get angry. Of course, I get sad. I have a full range of emotions. I also have a whole smorgasbord of ways of dealing with my feelings. That is what we should give children. Give them ... ways to express their rage without hurting themselves or somebody else. That's what the world needs.

Attitudes are caught, not taught.

I wonder if we might pledge ourselves to remember what life is really all about—not to be afraid that we're less flashy than the next, not to worry that our influence is not that of a tornado, but rather that of a grain of sand in an oyster! Do we have that kind of patience?

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 same holds true for families: It's not how many people there are in a family that counts, but rather the feelings among the people who are there.

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.

Our children are extensions of ourselves in ways our parents are not, nor our brothers and sisters, nor our spouses.

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.

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

I doubt that we can ever successfully impose values or attitudes or behaviors on our children certainly not by threat, guilt, or punishment. But I do believe they can be induced through relationships where parents and children are growing together. Such relationships are, I believe, build on trust, example, talk, and caring.