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

Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.

It so often happens that somebody says 'change your life' and you repaint your car rather than re-wire the engine.

Travel, for me, is a little bit like being in love, because suddenly all your senses are at the setting marked “on.

I wanted to bring the book out right now because I think anyone who cares about Tibet knew there would be disturbances in the run up to the Olympics [2008]. Many Tibetans feel it's their last chance to broadcast their suffering and frustration and pain to the world before the Olympics take place and China is accepted as a modern nation and the world forgets about Tibet.

The more internationalism there is in the world, the more nationalism there will always be, as people feel scared of the Other streaming into their neighbourhood and don't always know where to lay their foundations in a world on the move.

In a world full of shifting borders, everything is happening all at once in every possible direction.