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.

Travel, for me, is a little bit like being in love, because suddenly all your senses are at the setting marked “on.

One curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory.

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

For centuries, Cubas greatest resource has been its people.

I remember many years ago, I asked [Dalai Lama] about exile and he said: "Well, exile is good because it's brought me and my people closer to reality," and reality is almost a shrine before which he sits. Exile brings us up against the wall and forces us to rise to the challenge of the moment.

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