It so often happens that somebody says 'change your life' and you repaint your car rather than re-wire the engine.

Death undoes us less, sometimes, than the hope that it will never come.

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.

I suddenly realized I was racing around so much, I could never catch up with my life

The Dalai Lama, these days, encourages Westerners not to take up Buddhism, partly because he feels that our roots are deep in other traditions, and we should go deeper into our own traditions rather than just acquiring the surfaces of others.

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.