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.

In a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day. The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear. Never let fear prevent you from doing right.

As long as there is no law in Burma, any individual here can be arrested at any time.

At the moment I would like to emphasize the need for vocational training, for non-formal education in Burma to help all those young people who have suffered from a bad education. They have to be trained to earn their living. They have to have enough education vocational training to be able to set up respectable lives for themselves.

Justice is a dream. But it is a dream that we are determined to realize.

I would like to have seen my sons growing up.

A revolution simply means great change, significant change, and that's how I'm defining it - great change for the better, brought about through non-violent means.