“We live in a beautiful and wonderful world, Demi, and the more you now about it the wiser and the better you will be.”

“....a good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser. Not just more knowledgeable - books that provide nothing but information can produce that result. But wiser, in the sense that you are more deeply aware of the great and enduring truths of human life.”

“[The world is] a wonderful place to live and lots more wonderful if you live in such a way that you can live with yourself.”

“The more we remember, the better we are at processing the world. And the better we are at processing the world, the more we can remember about it.”

“Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful World,With the wonderful water round you curled,And the wonderful grass upon your breast,World, you are beautifully drest!”

“The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.”