It's impressive that a man [Dalai Lama], on the day after his Nobel Prize was announced, in October, 1989, said to me, "I really wonder if my efforts are enough?" Most of us, if we just won the Nobel Prize, would think this is vindication, or at last there's a chance for Tibet. He's the rare person who thinks, as a Buddha would, "I don't know if I've done enough, I don't know if I will do enough."

Travel, for me, is a little bit like being in love, because suddenly all your senses are at the setting marked “on.

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

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

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

The Dalai Lama would say that meditation is something that can help everyone. But he's aware that it can be misused or things can go wrong.

All good trips are, like love, about being carried out of yourself and deposited in the midst of terror and wonder.