Fred Rogers Quotes

One should be able to say to our children: You are a marvel! You are unique. In all the world, there is no other child exactly like you. In the millions of years that have passed, there has never been another child like you! ... and when you grow up, can you harm another who is, like you, a marvel?

The truth of my experience is that we are all a lot more alike than we are different.

We are all human beings, immigrant or non-immigrant. We all feel fear. We all love and become confused when we don't act as well as we would like to. We all get depressed and have feelings of uselessness. All of these things are true and have always been true.

The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.

I think that there is something truly beautiful in everybody you meet.

Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

Our world is drowning in a sea of self-centeredness. You can make yourself quite unique right away by leaving this ocean of selfishness and choosing to be curious about other people.

Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.

People need to spread love towards strangers. We all bleed the same blood and we are all part of a global community now.

It makes you realise that people are the same wherever you go.

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.

Philanthropic work reminds you of everyone's common humanity, and that's really the common denominator for everyone.

Our best selves tell us that 'there but for the grace of God... ' and that, in the end, there is no distance, really, between us and them. It is just us. Our best and noble hope is to imitate the God we believe in. The God who has abundant room in God's grief and heart for us all.

I feel very warmly and joyfully towards BBC Children in Need.

If you empathize with your fellow humans on stage, you can't help but do so offstage as well.

We all have much more in common than we have difference. I would say that about people all over the world. They don't know how much in common that they have

Differences in religious beliefs, politics, social status, and position are all secondary. When we look at someone with compassion, we are able to see beyond these secondary differences and connect to the primary essence that binds all humans together as one.

I think our music is more about seeing ourselves in each other and trying to find a more humanistic viewpoint for the world.

There's not a day I live that doesn't start with me getting up and first saying, "What can I do for somebody else?" Whether that means sending something to one of my children or picking up the phone and calling a stranger who is in the hospital, I start every day by wanting more for others than I do for myself.

If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.

I like it that in many ways we are all the same.

Love people, not things; use things, not people.

Some will not look on suffering because it creates responsibility.

Human beings are members of a whole, In creation of one essence and soul. If one member is afflicted with pain, Other members uneasy will remain. If you have no sympathy for human pain, The name of human you cannot retain.