Hello Kitty will never speak.

Movement is a fantastic privilege but it ultimately only has meaning if you have a home to go back to.

That's the great advantage of being a foreigner: you're not paying your dues, but you are getting all the benefits.

Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed.

My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible.

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.

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