Heinrich Harrer Quotes

There were only three names on the map of the region we had brought with us, but we now filled in more than two hundred.

Floating down the river, I could not keep my eyes off the Potala; I knew the Dalai Lama was on the roof looking at me through his telescope. On

On October 7, 1950, the enemy attacked the Tibetan frontier in six places simultaneously.

They were nice, friendly people, and they invited us to share their fire and drink a cup of rancid butter tea with them.

We have a saying in Tibet: If a problem can be solved there is no use worrying about it. If it can't be solved, worrying will do no good.

There are times when visible poverty has its advantages.

It was inevitable that Red China would invade Tibet, and then there would be no place for us two friends of Tibetan independence.

All our dreams begin in youth.

Fear ... the right and necessary counterweights to that courage which urges men skyward, and protects them from self-destruction