As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there is no use. 

Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is completely different. I don't use one piece of technology that I used when I started directing.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Corruption may affect our body as well as our mind.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

How beautiful our country is, even after facing many obstacles, whether it was for independence, or with caste or religion, we Indians always make a comeback and fight with each of them with a huge determination.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them. 

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.