I'm rather inclined to liking people.

I was a bit of a coward when I was small. I was terribly frightened of the dark.

Frankly, if you do politics, you should not be thinking about your dignity.

I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor.

Saints, it has been said, are the sinners who go on trying. So free men and women are the oppressed who go on trying and who in the process make themselves fit to bear the responsibilities and uphold the disciplines which will maintain a free society.

I don't want Burma to be a basket case forever.

India and Burma have been close friends since the days we were struggling for independence. And I'm a great admirer of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, and all those leaders of India's independence movement. I would like to believe the aspirations and hopes we shared in the past will continue to bind us in the future.