The moment our dignity is undermined, we get up in arms and want to see our dignity restored - especially if we are humiliated.

Serve others. The failing recipe for happiness and success is to want the good of others.

We can only be human together.

I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven. No, I would say sorry, I mean I would much rather go to the other place.

Being formed into a nation takes some doing.

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.

You don't think we have a copyright to forgiveness, it is done by people everywhere.