So travel for me is an act of discovery and of responsibility as well a grand adventure and a constant liberation.

Destinations are less important than the spirit you bring to them.

We may be joined these days more by the questions we have in common than by the answers we share.

I'm one of those perverse people who likes being alone. I always took myself to be a community of one. That's what I am comfortable with.

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]is far and away the most solid, deep-thinking, far-sighted politician I've met, and I've been a journalist for 26 years for Time magazine, so I've met a lot of politicians.

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