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

At this age, I should be leading a quiet life.

Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace. Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution.

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

If you are feeling helpless, help someone.

If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.

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.