I think, if you have enough inner resources, then you can live in isolation for long periods of time and not feel diminished by it.

I think, if you have enough inner resources, then you can live in isolation for long periods of time and not feel diminished by it.

It's good to know that the people of different countries are really concerned and involved in the movement to help Burma. I think in some ways it's better to have the people of the world on your side than the governments of the world, even if governments can be more effective in certain directions.

I look upon myself as a politician. That isn't a dirty word.

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.

If suffering were an unavoidable part of our existence, we should try to alleviate it as far as possible in practical, earthly ways.

Sometimes, 24 hours can bring a total revolutionary change.