We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say.

I think Dalai Lama efforts have been heroic.

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

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?

Making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions.

You can continue your practice, you can exercise kindness, you can practice meditation whether you're in a prison or a millionaire's house, whether you're in India or Tibet.

When I was two years old, I heard about his [Dalai Lama] flight from Tibet. Being very little, I said, "Oh, good Tibetans, bad Chinese." Those were the black-and-white ways that I thought.