If I stay on for the time being, bearing the burden at my age, it is not because of love for power or office. I have had an ample share of both. If I stay it is because I have a feeling that I may, through things that have happened, have an influence about what I care about above all else, the building of a sure and lasting peace.

I am not sure I should have dared to start; but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

I like things to happen, and if they don't happen I like to make them happen.

The reason for having diplomatic relations is not to confer a compliment, but to secure a convenience. [On diplomatic recognition of the People's Republic of China]

There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.

Achievement is not last, disappointment is not deadly: It is the mettle to proceed with that matters.