'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.'

“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.''

All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.

'When you kiss someone, your heart goes out to them, and when you're done kissing them your heart goes back in.'