Leo Buscaglia

Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!

Love creates an ‘us’ without destroying a ‘me’.

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.

I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.

Why is the tao so valuable? Because it is everywhere, and everyone can use it. This is why those who seek will find.

Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?

It’s not about approving or liking, but just being able to allow the world to be the way it is without resenting, hating, or judging it.

[On religion:] Wasn’t it invented by man for a kind of solace? It’s as though he had said, ‘I’ll make me a nice comfortable garment to shut out the heat and the cold,’ and then it ends by becoming a strait-jacket.

Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.

The Buddhist notion of diligence is to delight in positive deeds.

There’s nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, If you believe in Me, you ain’t going to have no troubles.

I believe a man is better anchored who has a belief in the Supreme Being.

Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind.

Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.