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

Dalai Lama is transforming those criteria - and the whole way of conducting politics. He's conducting politics in a much deeper way than most politic….

Traveling is a way to reverse time, to a small extent, and make a day last a year - or at least forty-five hours - and traveling is an easy way of su….

For citizens who think themselves puppets in the hands of their rulers, nothing is more satisfying than having rulers as puppets in their hands..

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

Often when we think of exile we think of destruction or loss. But the Dalai Lama always says exile is reality, it's something we can make use of, and….

Unlike many spiritual leaders, Dalai Lama is never been in a position to just sit on a mountain top handing out wisdom. He's had to live out his prin….

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….

Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love..

[The Dalai Lama ] says Western traditions can teach Tibetans a lot about social action, and he thinks some Christians are very good at that..

I've also learned from [Dalai Lama] that we make the world by how we choose to look at it. In any situation you can make it constructive or dismaying….

Travel spins us round in two ways at once: It shows us the sights and values and issues that we might ordinarily ignore; but it also, and more deeply….

When one questions [Dalai Lama's] political actions, it is worth remembering that he's the single most experienced politician on the planet at this m….

I remember many years ago, I asked [Dalai Lama] about exile and he said: "Well, exile is good because it's brought me and my people closer to reality….

We can better see what we don't have. The other man's grass is always greener and now we can actually go and visit his grass much more and feel the a….

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-….

I often think we're most happy when we forget the time..

I like the way that American has become a kind of spiritual home even for people who have never seen it. American dreams are strongest of all in the ….

Dalai Lama is taking a subtle and nuanced view of politics and he is thinking in terms of events well beyond our lifetime..

It's impressive that a man [Dalai Lama], on the day after his Nobel Prize was announced, in October, 1989, said to me, "I really wonder if my efforts….

When I'm wandering around the Himalayas, most of the people that I see are Westerners from Germany, California, or the Netherlands, who are wearing s….