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.

In an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still.

Hello Kitty will never speak.

Making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions.

Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.

But it’s only by having some distance from the world that you can see it whole, and understand what you should be doing with it.

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

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

Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith.

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

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

A disposable society is only fit for disposable people.

The really authentic thing about humor is that anyone can pretend to be serious. Anyone who's ever had a job - in fact, we're pretending to be serious now, more or less.

I think there are probably just as many adults who would miss the humor of my books, if not more, as there are children.

Don't forget, America is a very powerful nuclear country and so is Russia. There's no up-side.

I'm about being the best.

I like music to soothe me.

Love makes mutes of those who habitually speak most fluently.

What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others.

I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular.

Don't be a complainer; make things better, let it go, or take action to make it better.