After all it was my father who founded the Burmese army and I do have a sense of warmth towards the Burmese army.

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.

The judiciary in Burma is not independent. It's widely known, everybody knows that.

I've always thought that the best solution for those who feel helpless is for them to help others.

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.

I was given some Harry Potter books by a young friend. I wanted to know why young people liked it so much. And I noted that there were some values in Harry Potter that are common to many books that are popular all over the world. In the end, I think people prefer the good to win, rather than the bad.

I do not look upon my life as a sacrifice at all.