The less conscious one is of being a writer, the better the writing.

Dalai Lama has made new opportunities for women that they never had in Tibet, introduced science into the monks' curriculum and had Tibetan students in exile take their classes in English after the age of ten so that they will know more about the outside world. But one of the great things he's done is to bring all the Tibetan groups together in exile, as perhaps they couldn't have been when they weren't in exile and they weren't under such pressure.

In a world full of shifting borders, everything is happening all at once in every possible direction.

[The Dalai Lama ] says Western traditions can teach Tibetans a lot about social action, and he thinks some Christians are very good at that.

...home lies in the things you carry with you everywhere and not the ones that tie you down.

Every day there are small moments when we have a choice: will we take in more stuff, or just clear our minds out for a bit?

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.