Fred Rogers

If it's mentionable, it's manageable.

— Fred Rogers

Children aren't responsible for wars.

— Fred Rogers

Please won't you be my neighbor?

— Fred Rogers

“Life is for service.”

— Fred Rogers

Anything mentionable is manageable.

— Fred Rogers

Whatever is mentionable is manageable.

— Fred Rogers

Love begins with listening.

— Fred Rogers

I like you just the way you are.

— Fred Rogers

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

— Fred Rogers

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

— Fred Rogers

Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime’s work, but it’s worth the effort.

— Fred Rogers

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

— Fred Rogers

All of us have special ones who have loved us into being

— Fred Rogers

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

— Fred Rogers

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

— Fred Rogers

Deep and simple are far, far more important than shallow and complicated and fancy.

— Fred Rogers

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

— Fred Rogers

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

— Fred Rogers

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

— Fred Rogers

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

— Fred Rogers

Try your best to make goodness attractive. That's one of the toughest assignments you'll ever be given.

— Fred Rogers

I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers - so many caring people in this world.

— Fred Rogers

I feel that the real drama of life is never center stage, it's always in the wings. It's never with the spotlight…

— Fred Rogers

For a couple with young children, divorce seldom comes as a "solution" to stress, only as a way to end one form…

— Fred Rogers

I believe that at the center of the universe there dwells a loving spirit who longs for all that’s best in all…

— Fred Rogers

It's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It's the knowing that…

— Fred Rogers

If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to…

— Fred Rogers

When I first saw children's television, I thought it was perfectly horrible. And I thought there was some way of using this…

— Fred Rogers

In the external scheme of things, shining moments are as brief as the twinkling of an eye, yet such twinklings are what…

— Fred Rogers

Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they…

— Fred Rogers

I've often hesitated in beginning a project because I've thought, 'It'll never turn out to be even remotely like the good idea…

— Fred Rogers

When our children see us expressing our emotions, they can learn that their own feelings are natural and permissible, can be expressed,…

— Fred Rogers

Very frankly, I am opposed to people being programmed by others. My whole approach in broadcasting has always been 'You are an…

— Fred Rogers

It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood, A beautiful day for a neighbor. Would you be mine? Could you be mine?... It's…

— Fred Rogers

This is what I give. I give an expression of care every day to each child, to help him realize that he…

— Fred Rogers

I wonder what memories of yours will persist as you go on in life. My hunch is that the most important will…

— Fred Rogers

“Mutually caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other's achievements, confidence in oneself, and the ability to give…

— Fred Rogers

It is one of the paradoxes of parenting, and often a painful paradox, that even as our children need us for love…

— Fred Rogers

“I remember one of my seminary professors saying people who were able to appreciate others—who looked for what was good and healthy…

— Fred Rogers

There are many things children accept as "grown-up things" over when they have no control and for which they have no responsibility--for…

— Fred Rogers