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

I'm one of those perverse people who likes being alone. I always took myself to be a community of one. That's what I am comfortable with.

There's so much visible stuff around now, we're tempted to forget that it's usually the invisible that matters most.

But it’s only by having some distance from the world that you can see it whole, and understand what you should be doing with it.

With the war in Iraq, he [Dalai Lama] feels that the causes of that lie maybe hundreds of years ago, and he says, "What we do now may have consequences far into the future that we will never see."

The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.

Perhaps the greatest danger of our global community is that the person in LA thinks he knows Cambodia because he's seen The Killing Fields on-screen, and the newcomer from Cambodia thinks he knows LA because he's seen City of Angels on video.