The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear

I was heartened that people everywhere want certain basic freedoms, even if they live in a totally different cultural environment.

There's a certain age when your height stops growing and you cannot change that. This sort of body growth cannot be fixed. But there are many things that can be changed. You might have a small body structure but there are opportunities to make yourself very fit and healthy. So we'll have to work hard in many aspects.

Foreign investors will not come and do things without any returns for themselves. And we don't expect them to come work for us free. But the local population should benefit rightfully. The locals should benefit just a little more than the companies.

Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.

We cannot be caught in the bond of suspicion. We have to carry out what we should be doing with a firm determination.

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.