ZHANG YOULAN, a former teacher in China who now works at a nursing home, on how the nation’s shrinking population has brought new opportunities for business that serve seniors. Page A1.

“We’re not going to be this bad forever. We’re going to get better. So when we do get good, I can say, ‘I stuck with them through thick and thin.’” BARRY ANTONIAZZI, on why he still ...

“Maybe it’s weird, but I’ll need to be barefoot on the stage. I’ll need to place my hand on the floor of the stage and on the set to feel connected.” Aaron Pierre, describing how he ...

BRIAN JONES, a foreman at the Port of Philadelphia, on negotiations for a new contract covering longshore workers being stalled over the use of equipment that can function without human operators.

'If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration. I didn't grow up playing tennis at the country club' Tennis star Serena Williams, on the run ...

TIM BANAZEK, on his 2021 purchase of what is thought to be a record for a collection. For years, it sat in a concrete outbuilding on a country road.

“Sometimes you sit down and cry. But in the morning you get up, put on lipstick, go out looking beautiful and water the flowers.” IRYNA DAVYDOVYCH, who owns a nail salon in Ukraine, on how a ...

Quotes. Those tiny nuggets of wisdom, wrapped up in a single sentence, that somehow manage to speak to our deepest emotions ...

“When we find out more about these people, their lives, they really become part of history, not just as skulls, but as human beings.” ULLA MOILANEN, an archaeologist at the University of Turku ...