William Saroyan Good Quotations

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

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

He paints for the blind, and we are the blind, and he lets us see for sure what we saw long ago but weren't sure we saw. He paints for the dead, to remind us that - great good God, think of it - we're alive ...

In the time of your life, live-so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches.

Yes, the idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better.

Armenag Saroyan. A good man of whom the worst that anybody was willing to say, was that he was too good for this world.

The simple fact was that if the song wasn't about me, I couldn't see how it could possibly be about anybody else, including the one I knew it was supposed to be about, and good luck to him, too.