'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.''

“I wasn't yawning, I was just letting some fresh air into my mouth.” (After being accused of being tired.)

'Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.'

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