I Think Dalai Lama Efforts Have Been

I Think [dalai Lama]is Far And Away The Most Solid, Deep-thinking, Far-sighted Politician I've Met, And I've Been A Journalist For 26 Years For Time Magazine, So I've Met A Lot Of Politicians.

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-second Century.

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 Whatever Is Happening In The Reality Of America, Where There Is A Murder Rate Worse Than Lebanon's And Where There Is So Much Homelessness And Poverty, Still America Will Be A Shorthand Throughout The World For Everything That Is Young And Modern And Free.

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 Surrounding Ourselves, As In Childhood, With What We Cannot Understand.

I Take Very Seriously The Sense Of Our Living These Days In A Global Neighborhood. And The First Sensible Thing To Do In Such Circumstances, As Well As One Of The Most Rewarding Things, Is To Go And Meet The Neighbors, Find Out Who They Are, And What They Think And Feel. So Travel For Me Is An Act Of Discovery And Of Responsibility As Well A Grand Adventure And A Constant Liberation.