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

A person susceptible to "wanderlust" is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.

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

More than any religious figure that I can think of, Dalai Lama goes out of his way to attend interfaith conferences; religious harmony is one of his urgent priorities in life.

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

I think Dalai Lama is always careful about stressing that people be led into the practice by somebody who knows what's going on.

As soon as I began to talk to Dalai Lama, I realized that Chinese and Tibetans from his point of view are mostly the same. And as he pointed out during the recent disturbances, the Chinese are suffering under a tough government much as the Tibetans are.