“This is our house. And this is America Online.” (While pointing at a map of the North American continent.)

"That's the store that we need to go to and open the door and put our money in." (At age 3. While driving by the new Toys 'R' Us.)

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

'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.'

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