We will surely get to our destination if we join hands.

One should mature over 20 years.

In Burma, we need to find out what we have to do in order to keep the democratization process on track. Economic reforms have to be taken one by one. You see it's not just speed that's important, it's sequencing as well. You've got to get the speed right; you have to get the sequencing right.

Frankly, if you do politics, you should not be thinking about your dignity.

I think that freedom is sometimes a state of mind. Sometimes, mind you, but not always.

It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear. Yet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.

I don't seem to have time to breathe. Everything's happening so quickly, and so much is happening all the time.