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

I do not deal with the text [of the Bible] scientifically. I read it, I'm interested in its layers of meaning, but my relation to it is much more an emotional one.

Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.

For me democracy is the only way of life. The opposite is dictatorship or anarchy.

I shall never forget Juliek. How could I forget this concert given before an audience of the dead and dying? Even today, when I hear that particular piece by Beethoven, my eyes close and out of the darkness emerges the pale and melancholy face of my Polish comrade bidding farewell to an audience of dying men.

Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming.

Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.