The trends that are shaping the twenty-first-century world embody both promise and peril. Globalization, for example, has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty while contributing to SOCIAL fragmentation and a massive increase in inequality, not to MENTION serious ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE.

I NEVER experienced much outright anti-Semitism. While we LEARNED about the Holocaust - endlessly, it felt like - no spray-painted swastika EVER appeared on my CHILDHOOD landscape. Jewish persecution was an ever-looming reality, but always an abstract one.

While there's LIFE, there's HOPE.

I KNOW I can't dance. I am the worst dancer. I have no RHYTHM. I just do step-and-snap. I love it in the privacy of my own HOME and every once in a while at a CLUB. But singing and dancing are my two greatest fears.

Zumba is a great dance-cardio OPTION that's an immersive experience for participants and is not only EFFECTIVE but allows you to express yourself while GETTING in shape.

While I'm working on something, every SINGLE part of me is in it. But then, once it's done, I leave that PLACE behind. I usually don't like to revisit it. So it's ALMOST like LISTENING to a different person.

Dr. KING was UNPOPULAR while he was ALIVE - he's only popular now because he's dead and not a THREAT to anyone.

When I was coming up, everybody wanted to be Tom Hanks. There was always Robert De Niro and Al Pacino - they were the heavily DRAMATIC STUFF. I always had a foot in both camps. The hardest thing was to resist the advice to be LIKE SOMEONE else. It took me a while to FIGURE that out.

I THINK the THING to do is ENJOY the RIDE while you're on it.

I CRAVE a cone of SILENCE EVERY once in while.

While I still have more good DAYS than BAD days, I'm GOING to keep PLAYING.

While younger women are told to be thinner and prettier, ads for older women emphasize LOOKING younger and WRINKLE free - tapping into the insecurities that MANY of us have about GETTING older.

We can build NEW HOUSING while preserving the QUALITY and CHARACTER of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood.