“I think people prefer the good to win, rather than the bad.”

I chose to walk on this journey, because I solely believed in it and wholeheartedly decided to do so, and I’m willing and able to pay for the consequences.

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.

Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.

My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace – it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world.

Intimidation and propaganda work in a duet of oppression, while the people, lapped in fear and distrust, learn to dissemble and to keep silent.

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

Challenges mean opportunities as well.

The people of my country want the two freedoms that spell security: freedom from want and freedom from fear.

So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.

If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.

The quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitudes and values which shape the course of a nation’s development.

With the right kind of institutions, starting with the rule of law, Burma could progress very quickly.

Kindness can change the lives of people.

Sometimes, 24 hours can bring a total revolutionary change.

There’s a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.

How can you call it a sacrifice when you choose to do something because you believe in it?

Rather, the flag is a symbol of our national unity.

You ask any actor – they’ll tell you they’d rather shoot on location because you don’t have to invent the energy, the energy is there.

Rather than us trying to change girls in order to fit into the common mold of what we think a CEO looks like.

When I put my pen to a blank sheet, black isn’t added but rather the white sheet is deprived of light.

Rather it is a place of individuation where a person rubs up against oneself and against the partner, bumps up against the person in love and in rejection

She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.

When we define ourselves by what we can recognize, by what we can comprehend- rather than, say, by what we can describe

Rather than make claims of final theories, perhaps we should focus on our ever-continuing dialogue with the universe.