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

'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.'

'Dank Dank' (Reflecting his inability to accept compliments for several years.)

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

When you have snowflakes in the clouds in the sky and you have mountains, you get snow. That's how it works.