'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.'

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.''

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

“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.'