In Burma, our main goal in amending the constitution is not to phase out the military from politics. Our main point is to put the constitution in line with international standards and norms.

Religion is about increasing peace and harmony in the world. ... People of all different religions should be given the opportunity to pursue good in their own way.

Assuming the chairmanship of ASEAN isn't going to do anything about improving the lives of people.

It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear. Yet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.

If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise.

Calamities that are not the result of purely natural phenomena usually have their origins, distant and obscure though they may be, in common human failings.