“If we call these foothills, can we call the little trees 'foot trees?''' (While driving in the foothills.)

'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...)

'The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.'

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

'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.'