I will follow in my father's footsteps. My father set the bar very high. He was a wonderful leader.

People might think that my queen should be highly educated, beautiful and the best of the best. Jetsun Pema is a kind-hearted girl who is very supportive and whom I can trust. I cannot say how she might appear to the people, but to me, she is the one.

There cannot be enduring peace, prosperity, equality and brotherhood in this world if our aims are so separate and divergent, if we do not accept that in the end we are people, all alike, sharing the Earth among ourselves and also with other sentient beings, all of whom have an equal role and stake in the state of this planet and its players.

I don't want her at all to follow in the footsteps I went through.

He's a ham. He could follow in his sister's footsteps.

He did very well there, and I wanted to see my other son follow his footsteps.