Quotes from Robert Brault

If you can't explain something in a few words, try fewer.

Most often, walking alone with my shadow is how I find my answer, the result of gathering together all agreeable parties.

Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do — send for reinforcements?

Sometimes I wonder — if I were drop-dead handsome, and every woman I met actually dropped dead, would I ever get tired of it?

If you can wear the hard times of your life as furrows on your brow, you can wear the good times as a twinkle in your eye.

Man is the only trained animal who expects his reward before he does his trick.

When it seems that something can't be done, start it, and see if the rest of it can be done.

Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles.

Perhaps God gives us a physical body so that every time we change our mind, we won't be someone else.

A relationship becomes easier when you realize that you don't have to be the one at fault to be the one who's sorry.

In comparing religious belief to science, I try to remember that science is belief also.

The aphorist sees in every truth a wise saying, and in every contradiction, two wise sayings.

How do you tell an optimist that he or she has lived a happy life by mistake?

There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.

It helps if you don't see it as traffic but rather as thousands of individuals resolved to press on another day.

What you must accept as a parent is that you cannot always be there for your child without sometimes ruining everything.

The key to enjoying the moment is to always carry a list of "Things I Gotta Do That Can Wait."

Dare to be imperfect and one day there will tug at your sleeve a soulmate.

Two things are owed to truthfulness — lasting marriages and short friendships.

A blogger is an average person who happens to have a need to count his friends every half hour.

Our destiny hides among our free choices, disguised as the free-est of all.

In a dark moment I ask, "How can anyone bring a child into this world?" And the answer rings clear, "Because there is no other world, and because the child has no other way into it."

The world is as many times new as there are children in our lives.

According to science, the universe began as a swirl of gas that, as it cooled, spun off the Ten Commandments.