Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it.
A great love is an absolute isolation and an absolute absorption.
Petty laws breed great crimes.
Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.
Excess always carries it's own retributions.
A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
I met Jon Lovett, who was just coming off of three years of being a presidential speech writer and had just arrived here to be a comedy writer in Hollywood. I thought he was super green, in terms of this world, but he knows so much about the world that we're attempting to write about.
Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent -unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it -we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.
Knowledge is not to be taken from four types of people: a foolish person who openly acts foolish, even if he reports the most narrations; an adherent of bid'ah who calls to his desires; a person who lies, even if I don't accuse him of lying in hadith; and a righteous pious worshiper who does not accurately retain what he narrates.
The Crawfords played everywhere, in every ballpark. And we won, won like we invented the game.