'Daddy, how many whoppers are there in those tall trees?' After waking up in the car while driving through Calaveras Big Trees and hearing daddy say, 'Wow, that's a whopper of a tree.'

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.'

“If all the people in the world were nice could we just get rid of the word mean?”

'The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.'