Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore.

I am convinced that knowledge is power - to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.

I noticed that my mother paid for her intellectual freedom with chronic financial struggles and occasional personal chaos

Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds and when it fails.

This came as a strange letdown, to see how the game always went to those who knew the rules without understanding the lesson.

His mother had let him carry two valises: one for books, one for clothes. The clothes were a waste, outgrown instantly. He should have filled both with books.

The more we know of correct principles, the greater is our personal freedom to act wisely.

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

The inspired Scriptures make the clear distinction between false and true riches and make plain the reason why happiness is gained and fully enjoyed only by those who find true riches.

Several Sonic the Hedgehog games involved a quest to collect seven "Chaos Emeralds" that could be harnessed to obtain special powers. Inside the OASIS, dozens of different quests on Mobius Prime allowed you to collect the seven Chaos Emeralds, and I'd completed all of them. But if there was a way to trade the emeralds for one of the shards, I still hadn't discovered it.