He [The Dalai Lama] has made it his mission to say, "We can't afford to squabble over minor differences, we have to concentrate on what we have in common, our common mission, our common culture - and indeed what we have in common with the rest of the world."

Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love.

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.

We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.

A comma . . . catches the gentle drift of the mind in thought, turning in on itself and back on itself, reversing, redoubling, and returning along the course of its own sweet river music; while the semicolon brings clauses and thoughts together with all the silent discretion of a hostess arranging guests around her dinner table.

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

Every day there are small moments when we have a choice: will we take in more stuff, or just clear our minds out for a bit?