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

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

“This is our house. And this is America Online.” (While pointing at a map of the North American continent.)

"That's the store that we need to go to and open the door and put our money in." (At age 3. While driving by the new Toys 'R' Us.)

The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness.