Quotes from Robert Brault

The secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness.

There is a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really are.

One day you just say "To heck with it," and you go looking for trouble, and you find happiness.

Nowadays you envy a manic-depressive. Half the time he's happy, the other half he's right.

A man sometimes wins an argument, but a woman always wins a silence.

Even if you think the Big Bang created the stars, don't you wonder who sent the flowers?

Learning is a lifetime process, but there comes a time when we must stop adding and start updating.

Dare to turn life on its end, and you may find that topsy-turvy is a truer perspective than turvy-topsy.

As a gardener, I wonder if flowers really can't speak or just exercise unfailing good judgment in the matter.

What a snapshot is to your life, your life is to eternity, so wouldn't it be nice if eternity captured you smiling?

Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire.

As you reach for understanding, you find that your ladder of facts isn't long enough, and you try to extend it by adding a rung of faith. Eventually you see that the task is hopeless, and you put away your ladder of facts and go get a ladder of faith.

Evening, and home I go, commuting from a world that won't listen to a world that has heard it a thousand times.

It is a lifelong battle to try to love someone through the chinks in their armor.

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

Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don't fool.

The last I heard from my destiny, it wanted me to make a legal U-Turn at my next opportunity.

Metaphor for the night sky: A trillion asterisks and no explanations.

Most marriages can survive "better or worse." The tester is all the years of "exactly the same."

Are we marionettes, or are we creatures of free will who just happen to have a lot of jerky reflexes?

Better you don't search for who you are until you know who it is you want to find.

Love may be blind, but this I'll state — it's eagle-eyed compared to hate.

Death is just another stage of life, although the one you kind of hope comes last.

I refuse to be burdened by vague worries. If something wants to worry me, it will have to make itself clear.