Leo Buscaglia

Don't spend your precious time asking 'Why isn't the world a better place?' It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is 'How can I make it better?' To that there is an answer.

Profile / Biography

One of the first authors to tackle the complicated and elusive subject of love, Dr. Felice Leonardo Buscaglia, PhD, often expressed outrage at the lack of other material on the subject.

Buscaglia was born in 1924, and began his work when, as a Professor at the University of Southern California, a student of his committed suicide. He began a course that was not for credit called Love 1A, and his lecture material argued that social bonds are essential at transcending the stresses of everyday life and enriching it above the limitations of poverty as well as crossing communication gaps between generations.  He wrote books on the subject such as The Fall of Freddie the Leaf, Bus 9 to Paradise, Living Loving and Learning, and his lectures on the topic were recorded and some were televised to a strong reception on PBS.

Buscaglia touched an area that many people identified with in his attempts to overcome the social and mental barriers that served to inhibit expression of love between people.  In 1998, the time of his death, his books were in print in seventeen languages in 18 million copies.  On June 11, Buscaglia died of a heart attack in Nevada.