Hello Kitty will never speak.

I think of the Dalai Lama as a doctor of the mind offering medicine and specific counsel and cures in the way a great doctor would.

I think that mass communications as well as mass travel have made the whole world available to us in ways that they haven't been. As with any kind of freedom, the more of it that one has the greater the need for limit and restraint. But I think that it's a nice challenge to be saddled with.

I'm one of those perverse people who likes being alone. I always took myself to be a community of one. That's what I am comfortable with.

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

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

What we have to do is act as clearly and with as pure motivation as is possible now, and that will sow the seeds for good action maybe in the twenty-second century.