I often think we're most happy when we forget the time.

You can see exile as loss, and then it will be a loss for you. You can treat it as opportunity and then all kinds of benefits accrue.

What we have to do is act as clearly and with as pure motivation as is possible now, and that will sow the seeds for good action maybe in the twenty-second century.

Many people would say that A Tibetan monk, even in Lhasa, may be free while the ruler of China may not be free.

Technology, in short, cannot teach me how to do without technology.

Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love.

Destinations are less important than the spirit you bring to them.