From A Walk in the Park: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Part 1): Page 3:

Walt said about a theme park:

• “The important thing is the family. If you can keep the family together - and that's the backbone of our whole business, catering to families - that's what we hope to do.”
• “I think what I want … is a happy place - a place where adults and children can experience some of the wonders of life, of adventure, and feel better because of it.” (1955)
• “… like Alice stepping through the Looking Glass, to step through the portals of Disneyland will be like entering another world.”
• “I wanted something alive, something that could grow, the Park is that. Not only can I add things but even the trees will keep growing. The things will get more beautiful each year.”
• “Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.”
• “Fantasy, if it's really convincing, can't become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time.”
“It has that thing - the imagination, and the feeling of happy excitement - I knew when I was a kid.”
• “I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past.”
• “People sort of live in the dark about things. A lot of young people think the future is closed to them, that everything has been done. This is not so. There are still plenty of avenues to be explored.”
• “Why do we have to grow up? I know more adults who have the children's approach to life. They're people who don't give a hang what the Joneses do. You see them at Disneyland every time you go there. They are not afraid to be delighted with simple pleasures, and they have a degree of contentment with what life has brought - sometimes it isn't much, either.”

There are at least ten points that I think we can gain from what Walt said to use as a guide for hunting down the best Disney park:

1. A place for families catering to families
2. A happy place
3. A place to experience the wonders and adventures of life
4. A place where upon entering you feel like you are in another world
5. A place that is alive and growing
6. A place that represents a work of love
7. A place of imagination with a feeling of excitement
8. A place that nostalgically remembers the past
9. A place to dream about future possibilities
10. A place for the child with you or within you to enjoy the simple pleasures of life

Words of wisdom to live by when planing a vacation to anywhere Disney. Kind of said how this article is right about how Disney is more about money now than it is about fantasy, dreams, and making magical memories.