I'm rather inclined to liking people.

Even if you feel fear, you still have to go ahead and do what you believe in.

The quintessential revolution is that of spirit. Without this, the forces which produce the inequalities of the old order will continue to operate.

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

We want to empower our people; we want to strengthen them; we want to provide them with the kind of qualifications that will enable them to build up their own country themselves.

I've always said that the most important thing is job creation. Jobs will earn people money and build self-confidence.

Unless there is free and fair competition, there can't be healthy economic development. And what we have in Burma now is not an open-market economy that allows free and fair competition, but a form of colonialism makes a few people very, very wealthy. It's what you would crony capitalism.