Death undoes us less, sometimes, than the hope that it will never come.

Dalai Lama is taking a subtle and nuanced view of politics and he is thinking in terms of events well beyond our lifetime.

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

Yet [Dalai Lama] has said very strongly that basic freedoms of thought and speech have to be respected in Tibet and they're not at the moment. Tolerance doesn't mean accepting what's unfair.

You rebel against your parents until you become them. One day you look in the mirror and you see your father's face.

Home is not just the place where you happen to be born. Its the place where you become yourself.

Lonely Places, then are the places that are not on international wavelengths, do not know how to carry themselves, are lost when it comes to visitors. They are shy, defensive, curious places; places that do not know how they are supposed to behave.