Buzzie Bavasi

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

If emotional pain or problems have cropped up in your life, you must insist on getting closure. Closure means you don’t carry the problem or the pain. You address the issue, then you slam shut the book and put it away.

You must demand nothing less than the best of yourself and for yourself. You must tell yourself that it is not wrong to want it all.

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

What I greatly hope for these children everywhere, is a new attitude toward life–free from the gullibility which thinks we can get something for nothing; free from the greed which thinks any permanent good can come of overreaching others; and, above all, expectant of change, so that when life gives them a jolt they will be fully prepared to push on eagerly along new lines.

I’m beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else’s.

When you make changes in your life, make sure you’re moving toward the things you want.

Effective negotiators have a style that those whom they are trying to influence, relate to and admire.

Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

The little I know I owe to my ignorance.

Love is kind, it’s clear. It’s effortless, and it’s irresistible.

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.