Thornton Wilder

"The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose."

"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."

"It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness."

"The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much."

"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."

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