Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion. – Thornton Wilder
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday. – Thornton Wilder
Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success. – Thornton Wilder
Lets face it – think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth? – Henry Louis Gates