274 Quotes by William Saroyan

Human greatness is a rather difficult thing to account for, and more often than not one is mistaken in one’s hunches about somebody one has met.

I never knew teachers are human beings like everybody else – and better too!

I watch the growth of spirit in the children who come to my class.

I care so much about everything that I care about nothing.

I have an idea that most of all he is running away from love, because it’s too big and too demanding. He’s running away from us – from you, from me, from his sister, from himself, too. Who wants to be himself, who wants to be so little, and so captured and limited?

People are people. Don’t be afraid of them.

Illness must be considered to be as natural as health.

The Tax Collector’s letters are invariably mimeographed, and all they say is that you still haven’t paid him.

He was under the impression that he belonged wherever there was something interesting to see.