As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

'Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.'

'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.'

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

'There is no such thing as 'fun for the whole family.''