In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth women are not merely "tolerated", they are valued.

All right, your knees may be knocking but that shouldn't prevent you from going ahead and doing what you need to do.

To abolish fear correctly is to nurture law and order.

It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear.

I don't understand why people say that I am full of courage. I feel terribly nervous.

Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.

In Burma, we need to find out what we have to do in order to keep the democratization process on track. Economic reforms have to be taken one by one. You see it's not just speed that's important, it's sequencing as well. You've got to get the speed right; you have to get the sequencing right.