“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small, manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. —Mark Twain”
″‘Why should I make you new feet? To enable you to escape again from home?’
‘I promise you,’ said the puppet, sobbing, ‘that for the future I will be good.’
‘All boys,’ replied Geppetto, ‘when they are bent upon obtaining something, say the same thing.’
‘I promise you that I will go to school, and that I will study and earn a good character.‘”
″ ‘If we only had a cat!’ sighed the very old woman. ‘A cat?’ asked the very old man. ‘Yes, a sweet little fluffy cat,’ said the very old woman. ‘I will get you a cat, my dear,’ said the very old man.”
“I says to myself, if a body can get anything they pray for, why don’t Deacon Winn get back the money he lost on pork? Why can’t the widow get back her silver snuffbox that was stole? Why can’t Miss Watson fat up?”