Quotes from Robert Brault

Conscience is less an inner voice than the memory of a mother's glance.

Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional.

The imagination is a palette of bright colors. You can use it to touch up memories — or you can use it to paint dreams.

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.

Love is the greatest touch-up artist of all.

For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores. We prefer to eat our vegetarian friends.

A commuter tie-up consists of you - and people who for some reason won't use public transit.

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.

It pleases me to take amateur photographs of my garden, and it pleases my garden to make my photographs look professional.

Recalling days of sadness, memories haunt me. Recalling days of happiness, I haunt my memories.

The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher.

We labor to make a house a home, then every time we're expecting visitors, we rush to turn it back into a house.

Do not be surprised when those who ignore the rules of grammar also ignore the law. After all, the law is just so much grammar.

The irresistible attraction of pets is that their love can be earned

You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike.

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.

Blogs seem to have two magnetic poles, one attracting friends, the other repulsing relatives.

There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child — and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own.

The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.

The only creature on earth whose natural habitat is a zoo is the zookeeper.

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

Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.