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.

Some of the most relaxing weekends I have ever enjoyed were those I spent quietly with a sense of all work to date completed, and an absorbing mystery.

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

Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour, courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions, courage that could be described as 'grace under pressure' - grace which is renewed repeatedly in the face of harsh, unremitting pressure.

I think that freedom is sometimes a state of mind. Sometimes, mind you, but not always.

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

The important thing is Burma needs to end the civil war and for this to happen both sides must want to end the war.