I allowed myself to be taken in by the intellectuals. I believed too much in the Polish intellectuals and followed their advice.

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

Freedom may be the soul of humanity, but often you have to struggle to prove it.

I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes.

It is not difficult to censor foreign news. What is difficult today is to censor one's own thoughts, To sit by and see the blind man On the sightless horse, riding into the bottomless abyss.

My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove to the world that even the most complex situations can be solved by a dialogue and not by force.

[Without Pope John Paul II] there would be no end of Communism or at least much later, and the end would have been bloody.