Thornton Wilder quotes

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

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.

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.

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.

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.

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

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.

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for.

The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.

Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

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.

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.