Mr. Fred Rogers said a childhood filled with sadness and ridicule propelled him into a lifelong search for meaning and purpose.
Although 8 million youthful TV viewers see "Mr. Roger's Neighborhood," each week, the inspirational nice guy, who is also an ordained Presbyterian minister, lives by the simple motto hanging on his office wall: "What is essential is invisible to the eye."Speaking to graduates Saturday at the Memphis (Tenn.) Theological Seminary, Rogers said, "I find those words to be truer for me everyday."
Rogers thanked family members, teachers, librarians "and all those saints who helped a fat, shy kid to see more clearly what is really essential."
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