...there are days when I feel I can do anything and days when I feel I can do nothing. But fortunately for those around me, neither sort occurs very often.

Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.

If you never heard opportunity knock, maybe you're never at home.

The magnitude of an action may change not only the strength of its impact, but the direction. If you became a dentist, for example, you would certainly be an asset to our society. But what if everyone became a dentist? Who would bake the bread? Who would build the houses?

Be able to decline a date so gracefully that the person isn't embarrassed that he or she asked.

Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.

Know how and how much to tip people who expect gratuities, even in the case of poor service.