Know how your representatives stand on major national or state issues.

A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.

Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception.

Know why certain foods, such as truffles, are expensive. It's not because they taste best.

Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.

A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does.

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.