I make a difference between genocide and Holocaust. Holocaust was mainly Jewish, that was the only people, to the last Jew, sentenced to die for one reason, for being Jewish, that's all. Genocide is something else. Genocide has been actually codified by the United Nations. It's the intent of killing, the intent of killing people, a community in this culture so forth, but no other people has been really interested.

When I began teaching you hardly could find a university in America or a college where they would teach either Jewish studies or Holocaust studies.

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

My teachers [ had the most impact in my life]. Of course, my father and grandfather, but after my family, my teachers.

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

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

No human being is illegal.