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

I believe that any violation of privacy is nothing good.

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.

I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.

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

Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.

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