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

I was given some Harry Potter books by a young friend. I wanted to know why young people liked it so much. And I noted that there were some values in Harry Potter that are common to many books that are popular all over the world. In the end, I think people prefer the good to win, rather than the bad.

I would like to have seen my sons growing up.

I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping.

If you're feeling helpless, help someone.

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

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.