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

We didn't really differ [with Frank Moore Cross] because we have the same love of the text. We share that love.

You know how many reasons we have to be desperate and despairing, the world is not learning anything. We have seen that.

I had to be honest with myself and that I felt hatred then, but as children say "I hate you", it's not really hate, you know, it's anger.

Not to remember is not an option.

What I do, I want to do with all my being.

I am not so naïve as to believe that this slim volume will change the course of history or shake the conscience of the world. Books no longer have the power they once did. Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.