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

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

When he saw injustice, he wanted to do away with it. He saw communism, and he wanted to put an end to it.

I don't like to look a man in the eye.

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

If there were fish in the lake, fishing would make no sense.

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.