I want to initiate a change in society in the long term.

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.

Society has to change but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought.

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.

Therefore a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility obey the conventions and rules of society and achieve order.

I can't say that I've changed anybody's life ever and that's the real work of the world if you want a better society.

As in geology so in social institutions we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.

So my style has hopefully changed over the years and it is more relaxed and I do tend to smile and have more than one expression these days hopefully - which I didn't at the beginning.