Lech Walesa

“You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?”

“I use many different gadgets connected with computers; I use PCs, laptops and a Palm Pilot. I also use the Internet to visit websites, especially within Polish-language Internet. I usually go to political discussion groups and sites - of course, as I use my real name, people never believe that they are chatting with me!”

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

“I'm a man of faith. I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes.”

“In myself I am nothing. It all comes from God and the Virgin Mary.”

“The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.”

“He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.”

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

“As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world.”

“The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.”

“Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.”

“We were hoping Obama would reclaim moral leadership for America. That failed.”