Boosting mankind's capability for coping with complex, urgent problems

The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.

The better we get at getting better, the faster we will get better.

These days, the problem isn't how to innovate; it's how to get society to adopt the good ideas that already exist.

The key thing about all the world's big problems is that they have to be dealt with collectively. If we don't get collectively smarter, we're doomed.

It would be wonderful if I can inspire others, who are struggling to realize their dreams, to say 'if this country kid could do it, let me keep slogging away'.

Sometimes I apologize. It started that way and we never did change it.

The enemies of your enemies are not always your friends, but they can still be useful.

The whole problem of life is this: how to break out of one's own solitude, how to communicate with others.

Applause waits on success.

Death is hell and night and cold, if it is not transformed by our faith. But that is just what is so marvelous, that we can transform death.

Always warm up the audience with a joke....If you are not a particularly funny person, make sure that you inform them that it's a joke.

Poland is a sovereign state. We want the same rights as all other EU countries. Nothing more, but nothing less, either.

So great an advantage is given to sin and Satan by your temper and disposition, that without extraordinary watchfulness, care, and diligence, they will prevail against your soul.

I am very sorry to say that I rejoiced when I once more perceived the towers of Windsor behind me.

Those who go forth ministering to the wants and necessities of their fellow beings experience a rich return, their souls being as a watered garden, and a spring that faileth not

A man may be a false prophet and yet speak the truth.