Fred Rogers

“Won't you be my neighbor?”

“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.'”

“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.”

“Anything that's human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable.”

“You've made this day a special day, by just your being you. There's no person in the whole world like you, and I like you just the way you are.”

“It's not so much what we have in this life that matters. It's what we do with what we have.”

“The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.”

“Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.”

“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.”

“Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else.”

“The world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that they are worthwhile.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Real strength has to do with helping others.”

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

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

“Forgiveness is a strange thing. It can sometimes be easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. It can be hardest of all to forgive people we love.”

“Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered, as a matter of course, just one kind word to another person.”