Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human.

We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.

More people are aware of the consequences of hatred. People are aware. Therefore more people are engaged in fighting ... racism and so forth.

There is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.

For nearly 3,500 years Exodus has left such an imprint on people's memories that I cannot imagine it had been invented just as a legend or a tale.

Except if it has some historical meaning for them to have Tibet under their control. I don't understand why [ Chinese] want it so much.

I have tried to keep memory alive... I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.