When fear sets in, you don't trust others and when you don't trust anyone then you become selfish.

The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all.

A lot of the roads, bridges, railways, and such are built through the use of forced labor, and that is causing the people great suffering. What we put into this in the form of human suffering is not worth what comes out of it.

The greatest gift for an individual or a nation... was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind.

I was a prisoner, but I always felt free because I was not frightened So for me real freedom is freedom from fear.

I think there's a need for the participation of the military for the stability of the transformation period of Burma. If the military and the people do unite together for the sake of our country, we can reach the development of our country in a very short time.

Burmese political culture lacks an understanding of negotiated compromise. We have to build up that kind of culture.