Richard Gere

Mindfulness is a quality that's always there. It's an illusion that there's a meditation and post-meditation period, which I always find amusing, because you're either mindful or you're not.

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.

The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother's love is the best symbol for love and compassion, because it is totally disinterested.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

I think for any actor, for the roles they deeply, truly want? They always have to audition for them.