Personally, as a student who loves words, who loves texts, I am concerned with finding something in the text from within.

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.

I'm not a political person, and their ambitions are not mine. They want power. I don't want power.

If the Book of the Law could be forgotten for so many years, who knows what was done to it during those years? Maybe it was lost later, too. And another one replaced it, and that one is no longer the original text. These are questions that perturb me much more than whether it's history or not history.

Every moment is a new beginning.

Every nation has its prestigious military academies - or so few of them - that reach not only the virtues of peace but also the art of attaining it? I mean attaining and protecting it by means other than weapons, the tools of war. Why are we surprised whenever war recedes and yields to peace?

Abraham is trying to obey God, but not to kill. I feel that moment is one of the defining moments of Jewish faith.