'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.'

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

“If all the people in the world were nice could we just get rid of the word mean?”

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