Chinese people themselves, they really want change.

I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I'm telling people this, IS myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!

Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

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

I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason - to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.

The Dalai Lama is just a temporal leader of Tibet.

The Tibetan people will need to determine who the next reincarnation of the Dalai Lama is.

I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backwards.

I don't think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.

One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China's Communists.

I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die, and there will be no hope for Tibet, after the Dalai Lama passed away.

I think government can't do much.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and become the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.