Thornton Wilder

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

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

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

"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."