When I was two years old, I heard about his [Dalai Lama] flight from Tibet. Being very little, I said, "Oh, good Tibetans, bad Chinese." Those were the black-and-white ways that I thought.

Home is not just the place where you happen to be born. Its the place where you become yourself.

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

A holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about.

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

The Dalai Lama acknowledges that he's met Westerners who to some extent are clearly Easterners at heart, and he would never want them not to become Buddhists just because they happened to be born in California.

In an age of acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow.