[Chinese] are a huge empire now, you'll soon be - in a few years two billion people in the world. So, you should be more compassionate, more understanding. And above all, you don't need all their trouble.

I needed to know that there was such a thing as love and that it brought smiles and joy in its wake.

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.

Young people want to learn, they are thirsty for knowledge, they want to understand and remember. The main thing is to teach them where not to go. Oppression, not to go; dictatorship, not to go; racism and prejudice, absolutely not to go. This is a moral plan [for society].

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

I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it . . .