Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.

When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.

You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

People who wear G-strings suffer from indecision.

I want to go on living after my death!

The terms of the 2008 constitution [which ensures the military will continue to be the ultimate authority] could not benefit Burma in the long run. I think this constitution should be revised.

I don't just want to do something that is purely stuck in a genre box. I would like to have the kind of autonomy...

Art is so subjective, and people can react however they want.

The hallmark of a deep explanation is that it answers more than you ask

We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.

Don't depend on something that comes from outside. Outside things are never going to make you happy.

There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.