Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.

- William Saroyan

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

- William Saroyan

In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today.

- William Saroyan

In the time of your life, live—so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite…

- William Saroyan

Unless a man has pity he is not truly a man. If a man has not wept at the worlds pain he is only half a man, and there will always be pain in the wor…

- William Saroyan

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 tru…

- William Saroyan

Be grateful for yourself...be thankful.

- William Saroyan

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 …

- William Saroyan

I have always been a Laugher, disturbing people who are not laughers, upsetting whole audiences at theatres... I laugh, that's all. I love to laugh. …

- William Saroyan