I've also learned from [Dalai Lama] that we make the world by how we choose to look at it. In any situation you can make it constructive or dismaying, depending on that powerful computer we call the mind.

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

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

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

Because I don't belong entirely to Britain or the U.S. or India or Japan, I build my foundations in some way deeper than mere passports, and more in the light of where I'm going than of "where I come from."

Dalai Lama was leading his country during the rigors of World War II, he was in Beijing for a year in 1954; he was up against Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai from the time that he was fifteen. So he's no newcomer or naive when it comes to politics.

A holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about.