William Saroyan Quotes

"Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit."

"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know."

"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure."

"Three times in my life I have been captured: by the orphanage, by school, and by the Army. But I'm mistaken. The fact is I was captured only once, when I was born, only that capture is also setting free, which is what this is actually all about. The"

"Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else."

"I can't hate for long. It isn't worth it."

"The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness."

"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."

"We get very little wisdom from success, you know."