Quotes from Robert Breault

Always keep your home presentable, assuming you keep a home for purposes of presentation.

If you knew that hope and despair were paths to the same destination, which would you choose?

Hope is a walk through a flowering meadow. One does not require that it lead anywhere.

I hope some day to meet God, because I want to thank Him for the flowers.

Either way, things are a lot better - either a lot better than they were or a lot better than they're going to be.

Though you lose all hope, there is still hope, and it loves to surprise.

Act always from a sense of common humanity, and let God judge if it be charity.

I don't believe you really know God if you do not recognize His sense of humor.

What is reality but the dreamworld of a limited imagination.

There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly-lit front porch.

A watched child never learns.

I tell my child, if I seem obsessed to always know where you've been, it is because my DNA will be found at the scene.

Among creatures born into chaos, a majority will imagine an order, a minority will question the order, and the rest will be pronounced insane.

In the realist, you have the sorry sight of the five senses deprived of their imagination.

In the time it takes you to understand a 14-year-old, he turns 15.

To hurt someone you know will forgive you is the unkindiest thing of all.

If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.

The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.

Some have been to the mountain. I have been to my knees by the side of my bed.

Sometimes the answer to our prayers is to become the answer to someone else's prayers.

Eventually, if you're lucky in life, you find someone with the same chemical imbalance you have.

Sometimes two people need to step apart and make a space between that each might see the other anew, in a glance across a room or silhouetted against the moon.

For lack of an occasional expression of love, a relationship strong at the seams can wear thin in the middle.

As important as shared memories is the silent agreement that certain things never happened.