You know, words have strange destiny, too. They grow. They get old. They die. They come back.

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

'Indifference to evil is equal to evil' because it strengthens people.

I rarely speak about God. To God yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But open discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.

Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.

Tibet's a tragedy. It's an insult to human decency.

Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.