The open road is the school of doubt in which man learns faith in man.

There's so much visible stuff around now, we're tempted to forget that it's usually the invisible that matters most.

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.

Living here in California, I think one of the scariest things about California is the fact that it is rewriting its script and changing constantly and so many people don't know who they will be and who they will be with a year from now.

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

I love the fact that we can't explain coincidences. I think it's like sometimes you walk into a crowded room and you'll see a stranger and you feel as if you know her better than the friends that you came with. And the very fact that you can't explain it is what gives it its power, that it lies in some deeper or mysterious realm, I think.

For more and more of us, home has less to do with a piece of soil than a piece of soul.