It's very difficult to have any faith in the sincerity of the SLORC about stamping out drug production if they find it so easy to forgive a drug baron whom at one time they said they would never, never forgive and would never, never regard as anything but a drug runner. The SLORC is far more aggressive in its attitude toward the National League for Democracy than against drug traffickers.

It is part of the unceasing human endeavor to prove that the spirit of man can transcend the flaws of his own nature.

We have been making constant efforts, all the time, to start dialogue with the SLORC, but you know it takes two. We don't want a monologue. We would like a substantive political dialogue among the SLORC, political leaders including myself, and leaders of ethnic groups-exactly as stipulated in the U.N. General Assembly resolution on Burma.

The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.

All right, your knees may be knocking but that shouldn't prevent you from going ahead and doing what you need to do.

I've always said there's no hope without endeavor. Hope has no meaning unless we are prepared to work to realize our hopes and dreams but in order to that we do need to have friends. We need those who believe in us. Friends are those who believe in us and who want to help us whatever it is that we are trying to achieve.

If suffering were an unavoidable part of our existence, we should try to alleviate it as far as possible in practical, earthly ways.