The important thing is Burma needs to end the civil war and for this to happen both sides must want to end the war.

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

When the Nobel Committee chose to honor me, the road I had chosen of my own free will became a less lonely path to follow.

I'm feeling a little delicate.

I do not look upon my life as a sacrifice at all.

The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.

India and Burma have been close friends since the days we were struggling for independence. And I'm a great admirer of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, and all those leaders of India's independence movement. I would like to believe the aspirations and hopes we shared in the past will continue to bind us in the future.