Paul Karasik quotes

  • Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.

  • Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained.

  • After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.

  • How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

  • Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen.

  • Forget yourself and live for others, for It is more blessed to give than to receive.

  • There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.

  • Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land.

  • If a boxer ever went as crazy as Nijinsky all the wowsers in the world would be screaming 'punch-drunk.' Well, who hit Nijinsky? And why isn't there a campaign against ballet? It gives girls thick legs

  • How often it is that a small action becomes great by its intention. And how often it is that a great action becomes small by its intention.