I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true.

The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, and so are you.

All I hope is that the American coalition is doing its best to prevent civilian casualties and the killing of innocent people.

The term is piqua nevish [?] it means to save a soul, to save a life. And that commandment supersedes all others. It means literally you may violate almost everything except, I think, three commandments of the heart, 613, - you may do anything, violate any commandment and the injunction simply to save a human life. And there are enough lives to be saved in - in Tibet.

After my father's death, nothing could touch me any more.

[Tibet] is a small country based on religious principle, religious traditions. It never wanted any conquest.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.