A more significant phase should mean serious political dialogue.

I was surprised by the response of young people because there is a perception that those younger than the 1988 generation are not interested in politics.

The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.

When you feel helpless, help someone.

Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.

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.

I only used a cell phone for the first time after I was released. I had difficulty coping with it because it seemed so small and insubstantial.