True power does not need arrogance, a long beard and a barking voice. True power strangles you with silk ribbons, charm and intelligence.

You belong neither to God nor the state nor me. You belong to yourself and no one else.

The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization.

You cannot survive if you do not know the past.

Besides the things I asked [Indira Gandhi], she told me about her son Rajiv, who is married to an Italian girl and is a pilot for Air India, then of her younger son Sanjay, who is an automobile designer and still a bachelor.

The more democratic and open a society is, the more it's exposed to terrorism. The more a country is free, not governed by a police regime, the more it risks hijackings or massacres like the ones that took place for many years in Italy and Germany and other parts of Europe.

Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America.