Aung San Suu Kyi

“History is always changing.”

“What does Burma have to give the United States? We can give you the opportunity to engage with people who are ready and willing to change a society.”

“I was a bit of a coward when I was small. I was terribly frightened of the dark.”

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

“I don't believe in professional dissidents. I think it's just a phase, like adolescence.”

“I've been repeating ad nauseam that we in Burma, we are weak with regard to the culture of negotiated compromises, that we have to develop the ability to achieve such compromises.”

“The best way to help Burma is to empower the people of Burma, to help us have enough self-confidence to obtain what we want for ourselves.”

“I wish people wouldn't think of me as a saint - unless they agree with the definition of a saint that a saint's a sinner who goes on trying.”

“You cannot compromise unless people talk to you.”

“I look forward to trying the Internet.”

“Some of the most relaxing weekends I have ever enjoyed were those I spent quietly with a sense of all work to date completed, and an absorbing mystery.”

“We will not change in matters of policy until such time as dialogue has begun.”

“I knew some of the army quite well.”

“What I have experienced is nothing compared to what political prisoners in prisons suffer.”

“Sanctions are not really an economic weapon.”

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

“People keep saying I've changed. I used to be confrontational. But I'm - I haven't changed. It was - it's just that circumstances have changed.”

“I learned to work on a computer years before I was placed under house arrest. Fortunately I had two laptops when I was under house arrest - one an Apple and one a different operating system. I was very proud of that because I know how to use both systems.”

“I don't understand why people say that I am full of courage. I feel terribly nervous.”

“Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.”