Know how weather, especially humidity, can affect the movement of doors and windows.

I think one of the problems [with raising intelligent children] is compulsory schooling...and that children are sitting there and they are taught and told what to believe. They are passive from the very beginning, and one must be very, very aggressive intellectually to have a high IQ [...] the child is taught. Right from the beginning, it's a passive process. He or she sits there, and they simply try to believe everything they're told.

Know how to treat frostbite until you can get indoors.

Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.

An ounce of sequins can be worth a pound of home cooking.

If you're wondering if you're dreaming, you're dreaming.

I believe that one can indeed work on two or more tasks at once, but in ways yet to be understood.