Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice

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.

To step away from the world isn't to draw back; it's actually a way to tune in.

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

For me the first great joy of traveling is simply the luxury of leaving all my beliefs and certainties at home, and seeing everything I thought I knew in a different light, and from a crooked angle.

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

I think of the Dalai Lama as a doctor of the mind offering medicine and specific counsel and cures in the way a great doctor would.