My friendship with Mitzi was like the friendship that many children have with their pets. My mother and father thought it was "good for me" to have a dog for a companion. Well it was good for me, but it… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
It's not always easy for a father to understand the interests and ways of his son. It seems the songs of our children may be in keys we've never tried. The melody of each generation emerges from all that's gone… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Listening is a very active awareness of the coming together of at least two lives. Listening, as far as I'm concerned, is certainly a… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Children who have learned to be comfortably dependent can become not only comfortably independent but also comfortable with having people depend on them. They… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
As different as we are from one another, as unique as each one of us is, we are much more the same than we… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
This evening is as brief as the twinkling of an eye yet such twinklings is what eternity is made of. — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
The underlying message of the Neighborhood is that if somebody cares about you, it's possible that you'll care about others. 'You are special, and… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
The greatest gift that you can give another person is to gracefully receive whatever it is that they want to give us. — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
The values we care about the deepest, and the movements within society that support those values, command our love. When those things that we… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
“Everyone longs to be loved. And the greatest thing we can do is to let people know that they are loved and capable of… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
