If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so wel

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."]

The city's all brightnessand shadow, deckle-edged, bluer than air-there's no help anywhere-you no longer know how to listen.

My writing is a lens into the possibilities of the American experience.

It's better to send in the Peace Corps than the Marine Corps.

I never took the work less than serious, my work ethic is ingrained in me. But I've always had a sense of humor about myself.

What you see as cosmos is a living mind - intelligent space.

In five years, you're going to be blown away by the strength and diversity of Michigan's transformed economy.

I like it when someone tells me: 'I don't agree.' This is a true collaborator. When they say 'Oh, how great, how great, how great,' that's not useful.

I will live this day as if it is my last

Liberty is to be subserved, whatever occurs.

I have resisted the term sociolinguistics for many years, since it implies that there can be a successful linguistic theory or practice which is not social.