I do not believe that I'm sacrificing, in fact I feel very uneasy when others used the word sacrifice to describe my life. It sounds like I'm demanding returns for my investments. I chose to walk on this journey, because I solely believed in it and wholeheartedly decided to do so, and I'm willing and able to pay for the consequences.

To abolish fear correctly is to nurture law and order.

You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.

The judiciary in Burma is not independent. It's widely known, everybody knows that.

As the twentieth century draws to a close it has become obvious that material yardsticks alone cannot serve as an adequate measure of human well-being. Even as basic an issue as poverty has to be re-examined to take into account the psychological sense of deprivation that makes people feel poor.

You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.

I don't believe in professional dissidents. I think it's just a phase, like adolescence.