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..

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

In the end, we need two things to lead a balanced life - a sense of the world and a sense of ourselves; it's like breathing in and breathing out. An….

For more and more of us, home has really less to do with a piece of soil than, you could say, with a piece of soul. If somebody suddenly asks me, "Wh….

As Thoreau famously sead, it doesn't matter where or how far you go - the farther commonly the worse - the important thing is how alive you are. Writ….

Hello Kitty will never speak..

A person susceptible to "wanderlust" is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation..

I think that America is an ideal place for the privileged homeless, who are used to different cultures. It's easiest and most accommodating because i….

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

If you'd asked me some years ago, I would have said [Dalai Lama] is an extraordinarily compassionate, clear-sighted, calm human being. But now, I'm m….

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves..

For centuries, Cubas greatest resource has been its people..

In terms of technology and science, tomorrow does know more than yesterday; but when it comes to emotions, living with uncertainty, terror, I'm not s….

The reason I love travel is not just because it transports you in every sense, but because it confronts you with emotional and moral challenges that ….

Home is not just the place where you happen to be born. Its the place where you become yourself..

Some people will always ground themselves very strongly in a piece of soil, a grandmother's property, a tiny plot of land, and that's great. But in t….

Dalai Lama is very interested in learning from and sharing tips with people in other traditions, but he always stresses that we shouldn't underestima….

I think America the symbol and America the notion are still very different from America the nation. What's touching and almost regenerative is that w….

Dalai Lama has not coming to show us his kindness, so that we can enjoy his charisma, he's coming with a specific message for the specific circumstan….

More than any religious figure that I can think of, Dalai Lama goes out of his way to attend interfaith conferences; religious harmony is one of his ….

None of the things in life - like love or faith - was arrived at by thinking; indeed, one could almost define the things that mattered as the ones th….