Burmese political culture lacks an understanding of negotiated compromise. We have to build up that kind of culture.

You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.

It is not power that corrupts but fear.

Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.

Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace. Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution.

We will surely get to our destination if we join hands.

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

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear

By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.

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

To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others. Even the briefest touch of kindness can lighten a heavy heart. Kindness can change the lives of people.

Every single thing can change for the better, no matter however hard it is. Even a family in utter poverty can become prosperous in a couple of generations.

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

He who obeys the command 'Rejoice in the Lord' has a Hallelujah in his soul every minute of the day and night.

You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

As the cherub is to the angel, so the cat is to the tiger.

Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.

I don't want to increase taxes, I just want taxes to be paid honestly.

And sometimes when you fall... you fly...

My parents got carried away with the letter P when they were naming the kids in our family. There's me, Paula, my sisters Peggy and Patty, and my brother Pjimmy, spelled with a silent P.

I never did cheesecake; I just used my hair.