We must be courageous but also reasonable. The world admires us for walking a tightrope without falling off. It asks us to keep our balance.

What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent from the authorities, founded and shaped by the working people themselves.

I hope to work harder than ever to help people around the world.

If there were fish in the lake, fishing would make no sense.

Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it.

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.

I allowed myself to be taken in by the intellectuals. I believed too much in the Polish intellectuals and followed their advice.