One should mature over 20 years.

We must contemplate what the meaning of being "educated" is. Some people think a person with plenty of degrees is an educated one. But I believe a person who can judge a situation correctly and make timely decisions is more important.

I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.

Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.

There is no hope without endeavor.

In Burma, we need to improve education in the country - not only primary education, but secondary and tertiary education. Our education system is very very bad. But, of course, if you look at primary education, we have to think in terms of early childhood development that's going back to before the child is born - making sure the mother is well nourished and the child is properly nurtured.

Human rights and rule of law are inseparably connected.