Tibet, why is it occupied? For political reasons maybe they have a reason. I don't know. But religiously, why? The fact that the religious community is being oppressed and persecuted is something that every single person in the world who has any religious faith and religious feeling for - for people who have faith should speak up.

What is being lost is the magic of the word. I am not an image person. Imagery belongs to another civilization: the caveman. Caveman couldn't express himself so he put images on walls.

The danger lies in forgetting.

Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.

That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.

I believe a human being - if he or she wants to remain human, then he or she must do something with what we have seen, endured, witnessed.

Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.