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
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
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it’s on your plate. – Thornton Wilder
Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day. – Thornton Wilder
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
Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences. – Thornton Wilder
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
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
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
It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves. – Thornton Wilder
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
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. – Thornton Wilder
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose. – Thornton Wilder
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday. – Thornton Wilder
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. – Thornton Wilder
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. – Thornton Wilder
Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion. – Thornton Wilder
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. – Thornton Wilder
It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness. – Thornton Wilder
