It's all about giving back, helping people and encouraging people. I love to do that.

If you just literally stand still for a while, listen and think, things will eventually get sorted out.

Hopefully, I brought people a certain joy. That will be a wonderful legacy.

If you remain calm in the midst of great chaos, it is the surest guarantee the it will eventually subside

The amateur works until they get something right. The professional works until they can't go wrong.

When in doubt, stand still.

Be a part of all that is decent and be an ambassador for the kind of world that you want to live in.

I'd like to be an original, to be myself and not a pale copy of anyone else.

Feed the body food and drink, it will survive today. Feed the soul art and music, it will live forever.

Leave every place you go, everything you touch, a little better for your having been there.

I hate the word wholesome.

Well it's all right to cry. It helps a great deal sometimes.

Steadiness is coming up short 19 times and succeeding the twentieth.

Books make great gifts because they're everybody's favorite things.

I realize that the strivings of the Polish people gave rise, and still do so, to the feelings of understanding and solidarity all over the world.

This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity.

I think if I got a bicycle from my father, I should give a car to my son.

One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm.

I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, and the reforms are going in the right direction.