A 45-year old looks a lot like a 25-year old who's been out all night. And feels just as good about having survived the experience.

Everybody loves an accent. It you've been unlucky in love, consider pulling up stakes and moving to another country. Then you'll be the one with a neat foreign accent.

Play more than one game at a time. This is a painless way to learn how to do many things at once.

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

Think of a hypothesis as a card. A theory is a house made of hypotheses.

If your head tells you one thing, and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart.

The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.