So it is that Lonely Places attract as many lonely people as they produce, and the loneliness we see in them is partly in ourselves.

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

Silence is something more than just a pause; it is that enchanted place where space is cleared and time is stayed and the horizon itself expands. In silence, we often say, we can hear ourselves think; but what is truer to say is that in silence we can hear ourselves not think....In silence, we might better say, we can hear someone else think.

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

Hello Kitty will never speak.

For me the first great joy of traveling is simply the luxury of leaving all my beliefs and certainties at home, and seeing everything I thought I knew in a different light, and from a crooked angle.

I think of the Dalai Lama as a doctor of the mind offering medicine and specific counsel and cures in the way a great doctor would.