"Making ourselves the solution, rather than part of the problem is our greatest challenge."

“You want to be understood by the sophisticated few but you also have to be more loud somehow, otherwise your message doesn't go through.”

“It is far from simple to show the truth, yet the truth is simple.”

“True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions...It is a sin to try to alter this law, nor is it allowable to repeal any part of it, and it is impossible to abolish it entirely.”

“The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.”

Source : "The International Herald Tribune" (Paris), June 18, 1991.

“You need to recognize that the risk of moving toward your dreams is much lower than the slow, everyday punishment you inflict on yourself by suppressing your dream”

“Art is really people asking the eternal question, "What is it all about?"”

“By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of the State”

“To the best of my knowledge, no war was ever started by women. But it is women and children who have always suffered most in situations of conflict.”

Source : Aung San Suu Kyi's Opening Keynote Address at NGO Forum on Women in Beijing, China, August 31, 1995.