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.

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

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

Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.

When I'm being interviewed, presumably it's because people want to know how I feel about something or what my motivation is, not because they want to hear what I sound like in English. I wouldn't be true to the task if I responded in my unrefined English.

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

He grows daily more capable of following any inspiration without technical effort, and also of letting inspiration come to him through meticulous observation.

I don't have any style icons, but I get inspiration from my friends. My style motto is that it is better to be overdressed than underdressed.