Knowledge does not corrupt, unless it is arrogant; but then it is not true knowledge.

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

They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain and loss were illusions. (v)

I shall never forget Juliek. How could I forget this concert given before an audience of the dead and dying? Even today, when I hear that particular piece by Beethoven, my eyes close and out of the darkness emerges the pale and melancholy face of my Polish comrade bidding farewell to an audience of dying men.

Knowledge does not corrupt, unless it is arrogant; but then it is not true knowledge.

The whole community must be saved [in Tibet].

For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.