I'm rather inclined to liking people.

I've never thought of myself as being particularly brave - I used to be frightened of the dark when I was small. And I'm not very good with dead rats and things like that. But I face what has to be faced and I hope as best as I'm able.

When I was under house arrest, it was the BBC that spoke to me - I listened.

Burma is not yet a full-fledged democracy. We have started working on the road to full democracy. We have a lot of things to do in order to build a democratic structure and to be become a full-fledged democracy.

With the right kind of institutions, starting with the rule of law, Burma could progress very quickly.

The best way to help Burma is to empower the people of Burma, to help us have enough self-confidence to obtain what we want for ourselves.

In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth women are not merely "tolerated", they are valued.