Words can be preserved, experience cannot. And that's why humanity clings to its words.

Some people are wise through experience, but no one is wise through books.

I had rather be remembered for some kind act I performed than for having written fifty books.

Read, travel, talk to people, because if you only what's happened to you, you know nothing.

It is easy, too easy, to prefer books to people, since books are so much easier to understand.

Everything I know I learned from being around people. People are truer than books, truer than ideas.

I don't need anyone to tell me how to be free.

You don't learn what life is from movies or books, you learn what life is from living it.

Books end. Stories never end.