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" I've spoken in every state in the union, meeting and hugging the people who later bought my books. I spoke to anybody who wanted to hear me, including 1,000 nuns who could pay me only with homemade bread. "

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" It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them. "

Leo Buscaglia

Parents

Connection

Learning

" When we sit at the table, there is more going on than satisfying hunger. It is sad to think of those who eat simply to satisfy their hunger and who do not permit themselves to linger under the many spells offered by a good meal - the satisfaction of our hearts, our minds and our spirits. "

" A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. "

" If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance. "

" The purpose of life is to help others, and if you can't help them, won't you at least not hurt them? I know that is a platitude, that that is sentimental and can easily be attacked. But loving, caring is simple, and we make it complex. Our own neuroses make it complex. "

" I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way. "

" Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. "

" If you're an advocate of gentleness, you're simplistic and naive. If you're an advocate of despair and hate, you're sophisticated. "

" The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with every action we perform. We are teaching goodness or evil every time we step out of the house and into the street. "

" Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever. "

" The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises. "

" We all need each other. "

" Food is celebratory. People who don't cook don't know how much fun they're missing. "

" Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade. "

" Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lies man's only promise. "

" I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. "

" Biologically and physiologically, we are not equal. Some of us learn better at different times of day. Some learn best visually, some auditorially, some tactilely, by touching. "

" Hugs make you feel psychologically more secure and together. "

Leo Buscaglia

You

Make

" All of my youth growing up in my Italian family was focused around the table. That's where I learned about love. "

" Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. "

" What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. "

" The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them. "

" Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. "

" I have too much respect for people to try to control them. But they are estranged from love, afraid to reach out and touch one another. We're afraid to appear sentimental or speak in platitudes because people will say, 'What a jerk!' It takes courage in our culture to be a lover. "

" Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. "

" I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it. "

" I was lucky to have such a loving, crazy family. I learned to give and share. "

Leo Buscaglia

Crazy

Family

" You can be a follower of Muhammad or Jesus or Buddha or whomever. Always, they said that the most essential factor is to love your neighbor. And to love you. "

" What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity. "

" If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails. "