'A duck!... A baby duck.' (Squealing about a birthday card on her third birthday on Puerta Vallarta, Mexico.

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

'I'm not beautiful, I'm pretty!' (Angrily at age 2 and a half. After getting into his sister's toy makeup case and being called beautiful...)

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

'Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.'