'Divorce is when mommy and daddy yell at each other then they spread apart. Then they put up a 'for sale' sign in front of the house and they spread farther and farther apart until they can't come back ever again and it's very sad.' (teaching her 4-year old brother)

'Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.'

All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.

'When you kiss someone, your heart goes out to them, and when you're done kissing them your heart goes back in.'

'A duck!... A baby duck.' (Squealing about a birthday card on her third birthday on Puerta Vallarta, Mexico.