We live in the age of communication. Write letters to the editor. Speak to your congressman, to your senator. If you are young, especially young people are taken by this human rights activities. They should organize the universities.

One thing is that [Tibetans] should not give up hope. That's - even [if] it lasts a century. My discussions with the Dalai Lama always were about that.

To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.

I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible and they show that there were times, and there probably are times, that it is human to be inhuman.

Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else’s death.

The more you ask certain questions, the more dangerous they become.

I developed an anger at [Moses] Mendelssohn. Later, I read the book. I realized there was nothing subversive in it.