Fires of suffering and strife are raging around the world.

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

We have to choose between dialogue and utter devastation.

The terms of the 2008 constitution [which ensures the military will continue to be the ultimate authority] could not benefit Burma in the long run. I think this constitution should be revised.

You have a great many things to do when you are under house arrest. On the one hand, it is more comfortable than sitting in prison; on the other hand, you have to look after a household, which is strenuous under such circumstances.

The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.

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.