Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
Disobedience is the vehicle of progress.
Opinions need a willing ear.
If you own the facts, you may distort them as you like.
You'll see a movie about someone you hate or someone you love. Will you see a movie about grandma making apple pies? No, you won't. Only if grandma has poisoned the neighbor or is suspected of poisoning the neighbor through her apple pies.
History is sympathetic to its authors.
I am looking at opening a school of social engineering. The McAfee School of Social Engineering has a nice ring to it. Beyond that, it is hard to say what life will bring my way.
The novel is rescued life.
People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
You're going to find the people that make it work NEVER quit, quitting is NOT an option.
I think I have a finely tuned sense of humor. I think just being around it and growing up in it. . . my dad and Mel Brooks and Norman Lear. These are the people I grew up around.