If you are feeling helpless, help someone.

I've never thought of myself as being particularly brave - I used to be frightened of the dark when I was small. And I'm not very good with dead rats and things like that. But I face what has to be faced and I hope as best as I'm able.

The Nobel Peace Prize opened up a door in my heart.

We must all work together if we are all to live together in unity and harmony.

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

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.

We do need great change in Burma. We are trying to build a new society, a society where basic human rights are respected, and where our people enjoy all the benefits of democratic institutions.