Dalai Lama is transforming those criteria - and the whole way of conducting politics. He's conducting politics in a much deeper way than most politicians are able to. He's the only politician I know of who's a monk. The Pope, of course, is in a similar position, but the Pope isn't in the same way leading a country of many million people.

For more and more of us, home has less to do with a piece of soil than a piece of soul.

Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice

American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams.

You can see exile as loss, and then it will be a loss for you. You can treat it as opportunity and then all kinds of benefits accrue.

One curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory.

Home is not just the place where you happen to be born. Its the place where you become yourself.