If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk.

In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential.

In situations of military conflict, civil strife, lawlessness, bad governance, and human rights violations, terrorists find it easier to hide, train and prepare their attacks.

If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin.

If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally.

In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities.

The European Borders Agency in Warsaw has been created to help border forces in Europe cooperate more.

Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny.

Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism.

Terrorists always have the advantage of surprise.

The central role in the fight against terrorism is with national authorities.

God’s word

Knowing the truth is important, but following the truth is much more important.

Have you ever been further away than yourself? Where?

When we gaze into the eyes of our beloved, we're staring into the eyes of a sacred mirror, and we recognize our oneness.

Once I read autobiography as what the writer thought about his or her life. Now I think, 'This is what they thought at that time'. An interim report - that is what an autobiography is.

The Beatles were just a band that made it very, very big, that's all.

We need to stop, and admit it: we have a prediction problem. We love to predict things—and we aren’t very good at it.

I am the rich man's guru.

A true friend sees past your excuses to the real reason it's not your fault.

Every seam, every lace, every bead has been painstakingly, with love, corrected, perfected and mastered.