Even if you're not born the best, you can become the best.
Meanwhile, the rest of us will be left to ponder the gloomy declaration of the chorus in "Oedipus at Colonus": "Not to be born is best of all".
I lost my first born, my best friend, my beautiful Zoe".
Demographic data, labour and delivery questions and the period since the baby was born were best completed which allowed for almost complete socio-demographic data for PRAMS respondents.
But Brooks (later the Oscar-winning director of "Terms of Endearment") and Burns brought in female writers, then rare in powerful television positions, to give perfectionist Mary and her rumpled New York-born best friend, Rhoda, believably textured lives.
In India, where I was born, a best-selling line of women's cosmetics called Fair and Lovely has recently been supplemented by a product aimed at men called Fair and Handsome.
Ms. Altea, a British-born best-selling author who maintains that she speaks with the dead, was conducting a free private session for the grief-stricken.
Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus famously includes the cheery refrain "Never to be born is far best" with the comforting rejoinder that the next best thing is to return "as quickly as possible" whence we came.
As many now know, the Lithuanian producer Ten Walls, born Marijus Adomaitis, previously best known for his 2014 tune "Walking With Elephants," is now best known for sharing some distinctively hateful thoughts about gay people on Facebook.
"Watching him being born was the best buzz ever," Gavin told me.
