I think Dalai Lama efforts have been heroic.

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

The Dalai Lama says don't pray for peace, don't wait for peace, don't talk about peace - do it right now.

So it is that Lonely Places attract as many lonely people as they produce, and the loneliness we see in them is partly in ourselves.

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

He [Dalai Lama] feels, and I feel, and everyone feels the suffering and frustration of the Tibetans who long for action, who long for a militant response. But, in some ways very few of those individuals have ever been in the position of being head of state.

Our own country seemed more polarized than it's ever been and since the two terrorist attacks of 9/11, religion was in greater disrepute than at any other time in my lifetime.