Tom Hanks Shares 5 Things He Learned From Mister Rogers

5 Things Tom Hanks Learned from Fred Rogers in His Own Words

1. Hot cranberry juice is a perfect morning beverage. Not coffee or tea, but cranberry juice, heated up in, I guess, a microwave. The man got up at 5:30 every morning, so he knew what worked.
2. Getting up at 5:30 a.m. every day means you can answer an awful lot of mail.
3. A daily 20-minute swim does a world of good for you.
4. Weighing 143 pounds was his full-body message of “I (1) love (4) you (3).” “It takes one letter to say ‘I’ and four letters to say ‘love’ and three letters to say ‘you.’ One-hundred and forty-three,” Rogers said on his show.
5. “That which is essential is invisible to the naked eye”—his framed quote, in French, from Saint-Exupéry’s Le Petit Prince. This was Fred’s take on life, on being human. And it’s correct.
   —Tom Hanks

from Parade Magazine