In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

We are going to have to be very careful that we give people the hope that freedom is actually better than unfreedom.

Gaza is going to test who believes in the worth of human beings.

I don't often want to speak. I try to be a reasonable person and to be diplomatic, but you go to that place and you see the settlements, you see what has happened to the land that was owned by the Palestinians.

You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument.

One of the things that people sense is that you are not doing this for self-glorification, you are doing it for the sake of others. The Dalai Lama has been in exile for so many years, yet the Chinese are running scared of him.