Quotes by Fred Rogers

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

Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.

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.

You make each day a special day. You know how, by just your being you.

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.

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.

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.

I believe that appreciation is a holy thing--that when we look for what's best in a person we happen to be with at the moment, we're doing what God does all the time. So in loving and appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something sacred.

Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered . . . just one kind word to another person.

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.

Real strength has to do with helping others.

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.

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

We speak with more than our mouths. We listen with more than our ears.

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.

“You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a beloved Neighbor”, p.91