India and Burma have been close friends since the days we were struggling for independence. And I'm a great admirer of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, and all those leaders of India's independence movement. I would like to believe the aspirations and hopes we shared in the past will continue to bind us in the future.

I think, if you have enough inner resources, then you can live in isolation for long periods of time and not feel diminished by it.

There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.

Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.

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.

When fear sets in, you don't trust others and when you don't trust anyone then you become selfish.

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.