Even if you feel fear, you still have to go ahead and do what you believe in.

I'm rather inclined to liking people.

I could listen to the radio and I had access to books from time to time. Not all the time.

The quintessential revolution is that of spirit. Without this, the forces which produce the inequalities of the old order will continue to operate.

So, I think that for the authorities to say now that calling for sanctions will prevent dialogue is a ploy to stop us from supporting sanctions. It has to be the other way around: dialogue first, then we stop our call for sanctions, because sanctions make people understand that you cannot exercise repression and at the same time expect international support.

Fires of suffering and strife are raging around the world.

My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.