"My mother was my first teacher. She was a very kind and compassionate person. She never went to school, but she had a lot of common sense."

"A good friend who always tells you the truth is a blessing."

"If scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those claims."

"Human beings by nature are compassionate."

"China has turned Tibet into a hell on earth."