If we want to know history, I would think there would be every reason to.

I respect scholarship. But I don't like to do things half-heartedly.

For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.

I would say to [Chinese government], You don't need Tibet really. You don't need all the problems Tibet creates for you. It's so small, so far away. Give them their religious freedom and I know that they wouldn't misuse it.

In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.

It was the beginning of the war. I was twelve years old, my parents were alive, and God still dwelt in our town.

God made (human beings) because he loves stories.