Thornton Wilder

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead.

Either we live or we die, but the bridge is love.

The love of Hellena for the Abbess was of that excelling kind one finds now and then transcribed in lives of the saints.

Some say that we shall never know and that to the gods we are like flies that the boys kill on a summer day, and some say, on the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God.

The bridge fell, but Harlow was already falling from it.

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

The ancients have left us models in all the arts.

A man has to be Joe Collins to be a hero.

The human race... is in the most delicate of balances.

Every good and worthy thing is a cliché.

The test of a craftsman is the honesty of his work.

I am convinced that, except for a few momentary reactions, the world is not interested in the artist.

The art of biography is more difficult than the art of algebra.

One's life does not consist of one day but of the average of his days.

You're twenty-one, and you make a fool of yourself.

I can't. I can't. But I have to.

The morning star always gets wonderful clear just before it goes out.

That's what a man does. He gets up in the morning and puts on his clothes and goes to work.

We all know that something is eternal. And it ain't earth.