I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling.

I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.

I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes.

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.

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.

"It all came from there," Lech Walesa said, pointing to a TV when a reporter asked him why communism fell.

I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray.