Every kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in our world... Kindness can change the lives of people.

Burmese political culture lacks an understanding of negotiated compromise. We have to build up that kind of culture.

People should be concerned about installing a more sensible, responsible government. What we [the burmese] need is a government that is accountable and transparent, so that the people know what it is doing and can judge for themselves whether or not they like what is being done.

All military regimes use security as the reason why they should remain in power. It's nothing original.

It is not power that corrupts but fear.

The best way to deal with AIDS is through education. So we need a really widespread AIDS education program. In fact, what we need in Burma is education of all kinds - political, economic, and medical. AIDS education would be just part of a whole program for education, which is so badly needed in our country.

In Burma, we have only about four percent of the people in our country who are (college) graduates. So can we not value the majority? No, we must. If we just value the graduates, then does that mean our people are not valuable? I don't believe that. What is important is we need right people in right positions.