Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. – Virginia Woolf
We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods. – Virginia Woolf
I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we dont have complete emotions about the present, only about the past. – Virginia Woolf
Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order. – Virginia Woolf
I think there is a heritage which Im proud of, which is a fight for democracy, a fight for social justice, a fight for freedom. My grandfather went to jail or exile six times in his life, fighting for his principles for democracy, or for his country. And my father twice. – George Papandreou