Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.

Any passion to collect has some meaning behind it.

The challenge of life, I have found, is to build a resume that doesn't simply tell a story about what you want to be, but it's a story about who you want to be.

If I had remained in Lhasa, even without the Chinese occupation, I would probably have carried the ceremonial role in some orthodox way.