Travel is an act of humility

Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed.

In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have consumed, and we have not been enlarged by the feasts but only diminished.

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

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.

There's so much visible stuff around now, we're tempted to forget that it's usually the invisible that matters most.

The more we run from a problem, the more we're actually running into it.