Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.

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.

The difference between talking on your cell phone while driving and speaking with a passenger is huge. The person on the other end of the cell phone is chattering away, oblivious.

Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.

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

Ultimately, our future is like a mirror. Whenever we face it, it always reflects what we left behind.

Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.