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.

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

I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny.

I don't think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I'm just rather flexible and adaptable.

What we are lacking in Burma is an independence effective judiciary, and unless we have all three of the democratic institutions - strong and healthy, we cannot say that our democratic processes (is complete).

There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.

I have been arrested time and time again, and my colleagues, too. I cannot guarantee that I'll not be arrested again. But it's not something that weighs on my mind. I'll do what I can while I'm free. If they arrest me again, I'll do what I can while I'm under arrest.