'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.'

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

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

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

“If we call these foothills, can we call the little trees 'foot trees?''' (While driving in the foothills.)