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

Freedom may be the soul of humanity, but often you have to struggle to prove it.

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

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

When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it.

We respect the dignity and the rights of every man and every nation. The path to a brighter future of the world leads through honest reconciliation of the conflicting interests and not through hatred and bloodshed. To follow that path means to enhance the moral power of the all-embracing idea of human solidarity.

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.