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.

Every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them.

I think [Sacrifice of Isaac] is the most important event in the Bible except for Sinai.

I never compared Nazis into communism, but communism was the same thing, the end justifies the means. Whatever the means.

I don't know the real answer, my answer to anything which is essentially human relations is education. Whatever the answer is, education must be its measured component and if you try to educate with generosity not with triumphalism I think sometimes it works, especially young people, that's why I teach, I've been teaching all my life.

People become the stories they hear and the stories they tell.

Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.