The more we run from a problem, the more we're actually running into it.

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

Travel spins us round in two ways at once: It shows us the sights and values and issues that we might ordinarily ignore; but it also, and more deeply, shows us all the parts of ourselves that might otherwise grow rusty.

I would now put all my heart with the Tibetan people and the Tibetan cause, but not at the expense of the Chinese, and not say that Tibetans are good and Chinese are bad. And in my own life, I hope I would learn to be a little less full of right and wrongs, and a little more able to see everything as a potential right.

One curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory.

Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.