I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.

Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.

I think, if you have enough inner resources, then you can live in isolation for long periods of time and not feel diminished by it.

I think I should be active politically. Because I look upon myself as a politician. That's not a dirty work you know. Some people think that there are something wrong with politicians. Of course, something wrong with some politicians.

I think when the people in Burma stop thinking about whether or not they're free, it'll mean that they're free.

This was the way I was brought up to think of politics, that politics was to do with ethics, it was to do with responsibility, it was to do with service, so I think I was conditioned to think like that, and I'm too old to change now.