'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.'

'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.''