Adventure today means finding one's way back to the silence and stillness of a thousand years ago.

Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.

I'd spent thirty years visiting the Dalai Lama, and twenty years as a journalist going to difficult places, war zones and revolutions from North Korea to Haiti and Beirut to Sri Lanka, and the question came up: What does this man have to offer to this world which seems so torn up and so attached to conflict?

The Dalai Lama says don't pray for peace, don't wait for peace, don't talk about peace - do it right now.

Living here in California, I think one of the scariest things about California is the fact that it is rewriting its script and changing constantly and so many people don't know who they will be and who they will be with a year from now.

America has a hold on imaginations that no other country does. I think that is partly because it is an immigrant country and there is still a kind of innocence in America that translates very well everywhere in the world.

...home lies in the things you carry with you everywhere and not the ones that tie you down.