I learned to trust the threats of enemies before the promises of friends.

Tibet's a tragedy. It's an insult to human decency.

[Memory] is a passion no less powerful or pervasive than love. It is [the ability] to live in more than one world, to prevent the past from fading, and to call upon the future to illuminate it.

What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.

Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

We've sort of agreed that the account of Adam and Eve is a story.