281 Quotes by Thornton Wilder

[Camila] was quite incapable of establishing any harmony between the claims of her art, of her appetites, or her dreams, and of her crowded daily routine. Each of these was a world in itself.

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

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

The public for which masterpieces are intended is not on this earth.

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

The central movement of the mind is the desire for unrestricted liberty and (...) this movement is invariably accompanied by its opposite, a dread of the consequences of liberty.

The Marquesa would even have been astonished to learn that her letters were very good, for such authors live always in the noble weather of their own minds and those productions which seem remarkable to us are little better than a day's routine to them.

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it.