Felice Leonardo Buscaglia (March 31, 1924 – June 12, 1998), also known as "Dr. Love", was an American author, motivational speaker, and a professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of Southern California.[1][2] (wikipedia)
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.
All of my youth growing up in my Italian family was focused around the table. That's where I learned about love.
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.
The way to anybody's heart is through a thoughtfully-prepared, beautifully-executed, lovingly-presented meal.
Hugs make you feel psychologically more secure and together.
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.
I love to think that the day you're born, you're given the world as a birthday present.
We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them.
Value yourself. The only people who appreciate a doormat are people with dirty shoes.
Love requires that we overcome the traditional and self-defeating fears that place distance between ourselves and others.