That cold accretion called the world, so terrible in the mass, is so non formidable, even pitiable, in its units.
I watch golf on television, although I don't golf - except for visits to the driving range in spurts.
It was a noteworthy lesson, even for someone who'd been fed a daily diet of italicized lessons: that people in high places, luminaries with advanced degrees in Classics and in possession of excellent manners, can disappoint you as profoundly as anyone else.
I was a roving guard on the Lowell Hebrew Community Center's girls' basketball team all through high school. My specialty was stealing the ball, but my only shot was a lay-up.
I was nearly fired from my second job, which was writing press releases for Boston's public television station.
I wear a pedometer, aiming for five miles a day - don't be too impressed; that includes walking around my house and food shopping.
My narrators tend to be women with low self-esteem, so I can send them to charm school.
Countering violent extremism and destroying ISIS must be done primarily by Muslim nations with the strong support of their global partners.
Throughout all the years and in everything we do, we have focused most of all on the development of human capacity, beginning with our own professional staff, and leveraging their expertise to enrich the Arab community. We have embraced the concept of the 'knowledge worker' and have sought to empower our people and the Arab world's people to dream, to imagine, and to create.
The artist is very lucky, because in an art form that's spontaneous like jazz, that's when you really see your true self. And that's why, when I put down my instrument, that's when the challenge starts, because to learn how to be that kind of human being at that level that you are when you're playing - that's the key, that's the hard part.
It's really hard to make something that doesn't sound like everything else.