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.

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.

Travel, for me, is a little bit like being in love, because suddenly all your senses are at the setting marked “on.

I think Dalai Lama efforts have been heroic.

As Thoreau famously sead, it doesn't matter where or how far you go - the farther commonly the worse - the important thing is how alive you are. Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love.

The less conscious one is of being a writer, the better the writing.

More than any religious figure that I can think of, Dalai Lama goes out of his way to attend interfaith conferences; religious harmony is one of his urgent priorities in life.