Quotes By 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.

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.

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

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

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

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.

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'