Fearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is courage from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions.

I was a bit of a coward when I was small. I was terribly frightened of the dark.

It's very difficult to have any faith in the sincerity of the SLORC about stamping out drug production if they find it so easy to forgive a drug baron whom at one time they said they would never, never forgive and would never, never regard as anything but a drug runner. The SLORC is far more aggressive in its attitude toward the National League for Democracy than against drug traffickers.

Even if you feel fear, you still have to go ahead and do what you believe in.

When the Nobel Committee chose to honor me, the road I had chosen of my own free will became a less lonely path to follow.

We achieve everything by our efforts alone. Our fate is not decided by an almighty God. We decide our own fate by our actions. You have to gain mystery over yourself. It is not a matter of sitting back and accepting.

My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.