274 Quotes by William Saroyan

I don't like to see kids throw away their truth just because it isn't worth a dime in the open market.

People is all everything is, all it has ever been, all it can ever be.

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 ...

Each book can make a life or a fragment of it more beautiful.

A growing thing whose stages of growth always went unnoticed ...

Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding place and let it be free and unashamed.

Kids are always the only future the human race has.

Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all over again, in them, with them, and so there is something more to the world again.

I know you will remember this — that nothing good ever ends. If it did, there would be no people in the world — no life at all, anywhere. And the world is full of people and full of wonderful life.