The important thing is fear should not control your actions. It should not dictate what you do.

I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping.

War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.

I wish people wouldn't think of me as a saint - unless they agree with the definition of a saint that a saint's a sinner who goes on trying.

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.

Every kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in our world... Kindness can change the lives of people.

We cannot be caught in the bond of suspicion. We have to carry out what we should be doing with a firm determination.