I think Dalai Lama efforts have been heroic.

But it’s only by having some distance from the world that you can see it whole, and understand what you should be doing with it.

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.

Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.

A comma . . . catches the gentle drift of the mind in thought, turning in on itself and back on itself, reversing, redoubling, and returning along the course of its own sweet river music; while the semicolon brings clauses and thoughts together with all the silent discretion of a hostess arranging guests around her dinner table.

Movement is only as good as the sense of stillness that you can bring to it to put it into perspective.

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.