Quotes from Robert Brault

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

In the end, who among us does not choose to be a little less right to be a little less lonely.

Where you find quality, you will find a craftsman, not a quality-control expert.

Ever wonder where you'd end up if you took your dog for a walk and never once pulled back on the leash?

A cat, after being scolded, goes about its business. A dog slinks off into a corner and pretends to be doing a serious self-reappraisal.

If you listed all the reasons for your faith, and all the things that make you cry, it would be essentially the same list.

There are secrets I will take to the grave — and others I'd feel safer having cremated.

To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it.

Eventually the person who tries to fix the problem will be blamed for causing it.

See yourself always as cause, and perhaps a better world will be found among your effects.

The hardest thing about reality is returning to it after an hour inside your child's mind.

A true friend sees past your excuses to the real reason it's not your fault.

[I]t's getting harder and harder to worry needlessly.

Happiness is life served up with a scoop of acceptance, a topping of tolerance and sprinkles of hope, although chocolate sprinkles also work.

I don't know that there are haunted houses. I know that there are dark staircases and haunted people.

Sometimes, perhaps, we are allowed to get lost that we may find the right person to ask directions of.

I believe in animal rights, and high among them is the right to the gentle stroke of a human hand.

The human species is made up of seven billion subspecies each consisting of one specimen.

The little money I have — that is my wealth, but the things I have for which I would not take money, that is my treasure.

We are, many of us, a planet orbiting somebody's sun, unconscious of a lonely moon, orbiting our planet.

What to do with your one life? The same thing you would do if you had two lives, and this were the second.

It comes down to whether you believe in seven miraculous escapes a week or one guardian angel.

There was never a wise saying that couldn't be made wiser by adding the words, "and vice-versa."

Sometimes, to pursue a new idea, the artist must forfeit his deposit on an old idea.