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

Gandhi or Bishop Tutu or the Dalai Lama. I think they're really embodiments of what we aspire to and, by keeping them in our heads, we're reminding ourselves of who we could be. That's what we're hoping to climb up towards.

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

We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.

I like California because it still has the glamour and romanticism and exoticism of a very foreign place. It was the place that when I was young, I was raised on "I Love Lucy" and listening to the Grateful Dead and reading Jack Kerouac. They, to me, were all symbols of this very foreign sense of promise and movement. After all this time here I'm glad I still have it.

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

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.