When one questions [Dalai Lama's] political actions, it is worth remembering that he's the single most experienced politician on the planet at this moment.

I think China's view of freedom has to do with material wealth and modernity, and the Dalai's Lama view of freedom is liberation in the Buddhist sense, which is freedom from ignorance and freedom from suffering.

Most of us who have been lucky enough to hear, read and see the Dalai Lama, often come away thinking, "What a kind, inspiring and golden human being!" That is true, but I think it does him an injustice.

...home lies in the things you carry with you everywhere and not the ones that tie you down.

Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed.

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

For centuries, Cubas greatest resource has been its people.