None of the things in life - like love or faith - was arrived at by thinking; indeed, one could almost define the things that mattered as the ones that came as suddenly as thunder.

I think Dalai Lama efforts have been heroic.

The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual.

Dalai Lama is transforming those criteria - and the whole way of conducting politics. He's conducting politics in a much deeper way than most politicians are able to. He's the only politician I know of who's a monk. The Pope, of course, is in a similar position, but the Pope isn't in the same way leading a country of many million people.

I think Dalai Lama is always careful about stressing that people be led into the practice by somebody who knows what's going on.

We travel, in essence, to become young fools again - to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

Technology, in short, cannot teach me how to do without technology.