Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. -Thornton Wilder Faith
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 Wisdom
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose. -Thornton Wilder Freedom
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 Art
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. -Thornton Wilder Hope
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 Good
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 Happiness
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. -Thornton Wilder Wisdom
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose. -Thornton Wilder Alone
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. -Thornton Wilder Courage
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday. -Thornton Wilder Pet
