Any school would gain, if the students began the day with meditation, cleared their heads and got themselves centered.

I would now put all my heart with the Tibetan people and the Tibetan cause, but not at the expense of the Chinese, and not say that Tibetans are good and Chinese are bad. And in my own life, I hope I would learn to be a little less full of right and wrongs, and a little more able to see everything as a potential right.

I think Dalai Lama efforts have been heroic.

My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible.

What is fascinating about a place like Los Angeles airport is that it is lots and lots of people, many of whom have saved up all their lives and channeled all of their energies toward coming to the promised land of abundance and plenty - the American Dream. But as soon as they arrive here they get a crash course in the American reality.

I would say that by virtue of transforming politics, [Dalai Lama] is in fact easily underestimated.

A person susceptible to "wanderlust" is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.