'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.'

“I like lights on buildings, because without them you wouldn't be able to see all the beauty in the world.” (About the lights on the football field at the local highschool.)

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

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

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