Humanity? Humanity is not concerned with us. Today anything is allowed. Anything is possible.
[Tibet] never sought any territory. All it wanted is the conquest of the soul, that people should attain a kind of inner sovereignty, inner independence, inner freedom. And inner strength to attain the absolute.
A man can laugh while he suffers.
did everything I could in my life to be immune to hatred, because hatred is a cancer.
A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.
I did not weep, and it pained me that i could not weep. But I had no more tears. And, in the depths of my being, in the recesses of my weakened conscience, could I have searched it, I might perhaps have found something like--free at last!