In Jewish tradition the Talmud is said to have been given on Sinai.

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.

Tibet, why is it occupied? For political reasons maybe they have a reason. I don't know. But religiously, why? The fact that the religious community is being oppressed and persecuted is something that every single person in the world who has any religious faith and religious feeling for - for people who have faith should speak up.

He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer.

The only place where I felt at home, on familiar ground, was the Jewish cemetery. And yet I had never set foot in it before. Children had been forbidden to enter.

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

Humanity would never tolerate it