The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.

The judiciary must be strengthened and released from political interference.

My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.

I still oppose "Visit Myanmar Year," and I would ask tourists to stay away. Burma is not going to run away. They should come back to Burma at a time when it is a democratic society where people are secure - where there is justice, where there is rule of law. They'll have a much better time. And they can travel around Burma with a clear conscience.

Every kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in our world... Kindness can change the lives of people.

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

We cannot be caught in the bond of suspicion. We have to carry out what we should be doing with a firm determination.