“You are not required to start over, but you are required to keep going.”

“As in cooking, living requires that you taste, taste, taste as you go along.”

“It is always the start that requires the greatest effort.”

“There are some wives who require but a sentence. There are some who require a book. You, Miss Clarke, would require volumes.”

“God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.”

“The fact that you live in a broken-down house in the midst of restoration makes everything more difficult. It removes the ease and simplicity of life. It requires you to be more thoughtful, more careful. It requires you to listen and see well. It requires you to look out for difficulty and to be aware of danger. It requires you to contemplate and plan. It requires you to do what you don;t really want to do and to accept what you find difficult to accept. You want to simply coast, but you can't. Things are broken and they need to be fixed. There is work to do.”