I believed it would succeed. It was Polish Solidarity and its victory that put an end to the old era when what mattered were borders and rival blocs.

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

I am overjoyed that I do not need a heart transplant at this time.

I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.

The world needs leaders of vision instead of leaders on television.

Everyone wants a voice in human freedom. There's a fire burning inside all of us.

The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.

Words are plentiful; deeds are precious.

Deep faith eliminates fear.

Obviously people want social calm, but if you do not let clever and ingenious people to participate, obviously there must be some dormant volcano that will erupt, sooner or later.

My earliest poems appear almost skeletal to me now - it seems I've learned to add meat, muscle and a nice suit of clothes.

Each wrong idea we follow is a crime committed against future generations.

The sweetest things in this world today have come to us through tears and pain.

I look back, it taught me something - it taught me how to live, how to be a better guy, not let defeat be the end of my life.

You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.

Organized religious institutions are in for a huge transformation, for the simple reason that people have become genuinely religious in spite of them.

I wanted to tell stories about people who didn't have the chance to tell their own.

Men are idolaters, and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will; and if you don't make it of wood, you must make it of words.

American English is the greatest influence of English everywhere.

We cannot help living in history. We can only fail to be aware of it.