Where there is no justice there can be no secure peace.

If you're feeling helpless, help someone.

Human rights must be protected by the rule of law, and there can never be occasions where human rights can be neglected or ignored or the rule of law set aside.

Saints, it has been said, are the sinners who go on trying. So free men and women are the oppressed who go on trying and who in the process make themselves fit to bear the responsibilities and uphold the disciplines which will maintain a free society.

If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.

A revolution simply means great change, significant change, and that's how I'm defining it - great change for the better, brought about through non-violent means.

The best way to help Burma is to empower the people of Burma, to help us have enough self-confidence to obtain what we want for ourselves.