If you choose to do something, then you shouldn't say it's a sacrifice, because nobody forced you to do it.

It could achieve a lot if everyone in Burma could stop saying something is good if it is not good, or say something is just if it is not just.

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.

Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom.

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

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.