Dalai Lama is very interested in learning from and sharing tips with people in other traditions, but he always stresses that we shouldn't underestimate the important differences between them.

Silence is something more than just a pause; it is that enchanted place where space is cleared and time is stayed and the horizon itself expands. In silence, we often say, we can hear ourselves think; but what is truer to say is that in silence we can hear ourselves not think....In silence, we might better say, we can hear someone else think.

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.

The more we run from a problem, the more we're actually running into it.

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

American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams.