Fred Rogers

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.

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.'

What is important to consider I think is the difference between what is imaginary and what is real and the fears are real.

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

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.

If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. 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.

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

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

This evening is as brief as the twinkling of an eye yet such twinklings is what eternity is made of.

Hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.

What really matters is not just our own winning but helping other people to win, too.

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

In times of stress the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.

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

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

When we talk about our feelings they become less overwhelming less upsetting and less scary.

Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.

The only thing evil can’t stand is forgiveness.

Often out of periods of losing come the greatest strivings toward a new winning streak.

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.

Transitions are almost always signs of growth, but they can bring feelings of loss. To get somewhere new, we may have to leave somewhere else behind.

It's really easy to fall into the trap of bellieving what we do is more important than what we are. Of course, it's the opposite that's true: What we are ultimately determines what we do!

Feelings about money -- saving and spending, holding back and letting go -- start very early in our lives. Stingy people have often been forced to give when they were very, very young, when they weren't ready. And generous people have often been really appreciated when they were very young.

What makes the difference between wishing and realizing our wishes Lots of things and it may take months or years for wish to come true but its far more likely to happen when you care so much about a wish that youll do all you can to make it happen.