When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.

I was a prisoner, but I always felt free because I was not frightened So for me real freedom is freedom from fear.

It is part of the unceasing human endeavor to prove that the spirit of man can transcend the flaws of his own nature.

I do not look upon my life as a sacrifice at all.

I don't want Burma to be a basket case forever.

My opinion is the greatest reward that any government could get is the approval of the people. If the people are happy and the people are at peace and the government has done something for them, that's the greatest reward I think any government could hope for.

Frankly, if you do politics, you should not be thinking about your dignity.