If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise.

I do not believe that I'm sacrificing, in fact I feel very uneasy when others used the word sacrifice to describe my life. It sounds like I'm demanding returns for my investments. I chose to walk on this journey, because I solely believed in it and wholeheartedly decided to do so, and I'm willing and able to pay for the consequences.

The important thing is fear should not control your actions. It should not dictate what you do.

One person alone can't do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country.

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

Unless there is free and fair competition, there can't be healthy economic development. And what we have in Burma now is not an open-market economy that allows free and fair competition, but a form of colonialism makes a few people very, very wealthy. It's what you would crony capitalism.

I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor.