The best way to help Burma is to empower the people of Burma, to help us have enough self-confidence to obtain what we want for ourselves.

Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.

It is his capacity for self-improvement and self-redemption which most distinguishes man from the mere brute.

Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.

I wish people wouldn't think of me as a saint - unless they agree with the definition of a saint that a saint's a sinner who goes on trying.

I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny.

There is no hope without endeavor.