Calamities that are not the result of purely natural phenomena usually have their origins, distant and obscure though they may be, in common human fa….

Solidarity is a beautiful word because it means that you reach out to those who are different from you and who have to cope with different circumstan….

I was a prisoner, but I always felt free because I was not frightened So for me real freedom is freedom from fear..

There is a special charm to journeys undertaken before daybreak in hot lands: the air is soft and cool and the coming of dawn reveals a landscape fre….

I feel that the BBC World Service is not as versatile as it used to be - or perhaps I'm not listening at the right times..

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 ….

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

The main aim of the [political] dialogue should be to resolve the problems of the nation, not to find who is the winner and who is the loser. That's ….

There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk..

I was a bit of a coward when I was small. I was terribly frightened of the dark..

One prisoner of conscience is one too many..

I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights..

There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence..

I think there's a need for the participation of the military for the stability of the transformation period of Burma. If the military and the people ….

If the restrictions on the work of my party and on me personally are not removed in the very, very near future - that is in a matter of days - I thin….

The quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitudes and values w….

We're nowhere near democracy. I've been released, that's all..

I don't think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I'm just rather flexible and adaptable..

I've always said that the most important thing is job creation. Jobs will earn people money and build self-confidence..

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….

We achieve everything by our efforts alone. Our fate is not decided by an almighty God. We decide our own fate by our actions. You have to gain myste….