The greatest happiness that you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
—William Saroyan
Topics: Win, Now, Great, Happiness, Strength
Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.
—William Saroyan
Topics: Competition
Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know… One who doesn’t try cannot fail and become wise.
—William Saroyan
Christmas is sights, especially the sights of Christmas reflected in the eyes of a child.
—William Saroyan
Topics: Christmas
Be grateful for yourself… be thankful.
—William Saroyan
Topics: Blessings
Nobody, but nobody, is going to tell me I’m not the most. I am. I was the most when everybody else was struggling bitterly to become a little.
—William Saroyan
Topics: Self-Discovery
Doctors don’t know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit.
—William Saroyan
Topics: Doctors
Love doesn’t have to be perfect. Even perfect, it is still the best thing there is, for the simple reason that it is the most common and constant truth of all, of all life, all law and order, the very thing which holds everything together, which permits everything to move along in time and be its wonderful or ordinary self.
—William Saroyan
Topics: Love
Sunday is the day people go quietly mad, one way or another.
—William Saroyan
Topics: Day
I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the most unreal, unattractive, and unnecessary idea ever imposed upon the human race.
—William Saroyan
Topics: Writing
The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.
—William Saroyan
Topics: Truth
Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
—William Saroyan
Topics: Life and Living
If this nation is going to survive meaningfully, and then perhaps grow decently, it has got to begin to know and accept enormous deprivation.
—William Saroyan
Topics: Problems
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