Leo Buscaglia

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

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

I am a teacher. And I think I am a serious one who happens to be enjoying life.

I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning.

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

We all need each other.

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.

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.

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.

Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise the flexibility of the child the sensitivity of the artist the understanding of the philosopher the acceptance of the saint the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved we love to love.

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.

Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness.

There are two big forces at work external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes earthquakes floods disasters illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.

Every day we are offered new means for learning and growing in love.

When we feel joyful euphoric happy we are more open to life more capable of seeing things clearly and handling daily tensions.