I would say that by virtue of transforming politics, [Dalai Lama] is in fact easily underestimated.

As a member of the mainstream media for many years, I've learned just one thing: never to trust anything I read in the mainstream media - not because of any agenda or deliberate dissimulation, but simply because it's filtered and comes very often from someone whose judgment I might not trust in other circumstances.

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

We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.

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.

Any school would gain, if the students began the day with meditation, cleared their heads and got themselves centered.

Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger.