A man who is fighting for the future of mankind is not waiting for torture, he's waiting for -- the Revolution.

There is not anti-semitism as an ideology. The civilized world must think that anti-semitism is stupid.

First we must understand that there can be no life without risk - and when our center is strong, everything else is secondary, even the risks.

John XXI was a very great pope and he's the one who actually corrected the liturgy. He did so because of his friend Jules Isaac, a French Jewish historian who was a friend of John Paul, of John 23rd, and he convinced him and he changed the liturgy, no more Jew, the perfidious Jew and so forth and now, and don't speak any more of the Jews killing Christ. Things have changed.

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

Christians call it the "Sacrifice of Isaac," and Jews call it the "Binding of Isaac."

The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.