I do think it’s only by stopping movement that you can see where to go. And it’s only by stepping out of your life and the world that you can see what you most deeply care about… and find a home.

Many people would say that A Tibetan monk, even in Lhasa, may be free while the ruler of China may not be free.

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.

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

Perhaps the greatest danger of our global community is that the person in LA thinks he knows Cambodia because he's seen The Killing Fields on-screen, and the newcomer from Cambodia thinks he knows LA because he's seen City of Angels on video.

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.

I suddenly realized I was racing around so much, I could never catch up with my life