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.

The Dalai Lama says don't pray for peace, don't wait for peace, don't talk about peace - do it right now.

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.

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

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.

It's impressive that a man [Dalai Lama], on the day after his Nobel Prize was announced, in October, 1989, said to me, "I really wonder if my efforts are enough?" Most of us, if we just won the Nobel Prize, would think this is vindication, or at last there's a chance for Tibet. He's the rare person who thinks, as a Buddha would, "I don't know if I've done enough, I don't know if I will do enough."

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