I think that as human beings we tend to compartmentalize, and we have a selective morality based on the situation we're in.

Any political situation has many sides... We intellectualize the whole situation any way... We make our intellectual decisions based on our cultural background and how we live.

There is a way of looking at an awful place from a certain angle that allows it to take on a beauty because it is what it is.

When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore; he belongs to the world.

Sometimes it's an external approach where one can learn the skills required, let's say, learn to play the trumpet and in that process other things happen. It's magical: through the process of practicing four hours a day you start focusing on emotion and when you pick up the trumpet it's filled with feeling.

When you get up in the morning, set your motivations.

I'm a 50 year-old guy and I'm not in shape like I was when I was 30.