Lasting solutions are always difficult to come to. But they will have to persevere. I've been repeating ad nauseam that we in Burma we are weak with regard to the culture of negotiated compromises, that we have to develop the ability to achieve such compromises.

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

Freedom must be demanded and defended, by those who have been denied it and by those who are already free.

I do not like to encourage personalized politics, so we would not like it to be thought that just because certain political personalities were attacked, this means the situation is very grave. The true gravity of the situation comes from the fact that ordinary members of the NLD are repressed all the time. We don't want a completely paralyzed political organization, while a select few leaders are protected by international attention.

If you're feeling helpless, help someone.

It is part of the unceasing human endeavor to prove that the spirit of man can transcend the flaws of his own nature.

Calamities that are not the result of purely natural phenomena usually have their origins, distant and obscure though they may be, in common human failings.