It is not enough to sit and hope. You have to work in order to realize your hopes.

It is not a sacrifice, it's a choice. If you choose to do something, then you shouldn't say it's a sacrifice, because nobody forced you to do it

Saints, it has been said, are the sinners who go on trying. So free men and women are the oppressed who go on trying and who in the process make themselves fit to bear the responsibilities and uphold the disciplines which will maintain a free society.

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

As long as there is no law in Burma, any individual here can be arrested at any time.

We want to empower our people; we want to strengthen them; we want to provide them with the kind of qualifications that will enable them to build up their own country themselves.

You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.