Human memory works its own wheel, and stops where it will, entirely without reference to the last stop, and with no connection with the next.
William SaroyanEverything alive is part of each of us, and many things which do not move as we move are part of us. The sun is part of us, the earth, the sky, the stars, the rivers, and the oceans. All things are part of us, and we have come here to enjoy them and to thank God for them.
William SaroyanWe are not forced into unpleasant activities. We either allow them to come about or we encourage them to come about.
William SaroyanThe child race is fresh, eager, interested, innocent, imaginative, healthy and full of faith, where the adult race, more often than not, is stale, spiritually debauched, unimaginative, unhealthy, and without faith.
William SaroyanIn 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.
William SaroyanI should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.
William Saroyan