The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose. Thornton Wilder on alone
But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone. Thornton Wilder on alone
It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness. Thornton Wilder on beauty
The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much. Thornton Wilder on best
We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind. Thornton Wilder on death
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. Thornton Wilder on faith
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose. Thornton Wilder on freedom
The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way. Thornton Wilder on future
Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion. Thornton Wilder on great
When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole. Thornton Wilder on happiness
When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home. Thornton Wilder on home
Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home. Thornton Wilder on home
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. Thornton Wilder on hope
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value. Thornton Wilder on love
Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder. Thornton Wilder on marriage
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday. Thornton Wilder on pet
Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success. Thornton Wilder on success
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. Thornton Wilder on work
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. Thornton Wilder on love