Some of the most relaxing weekends I have ever enjoyed were those I spent quietly with a sense of all work to date completed, and an absorbing mystery.

I think I was the healthiest prisoner of conscience in the world.

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.

It is incorrect to say there have been no reforms at all in Burma; there have of course been reforms, but we still need to do more for the people. To become a democratic society we have to continually be reforming.

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

I don't think any country can survive as a prosperous and dignified country unless there is rule of law.

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