Thornton Wilder

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?

But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.

People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.

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

Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.

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