Quotes from Robert Brault

Life is a series of family photos in which you keep moving to the rear until finally you're a portrait in the background.

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

I don't know that there are real ghosts and goblins, but there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood kids.

The clash between child and adult is never so stubborn as when the child within us confronts the adult in our child.

The trouble with having a stubbornness contest with your kids is that they have your stubbornness gene.

I am not certain of the hereafter. Frankly, I'm not all that certain of the here.

An old dog, even more than an old spouse, always feels like doing what you feel like doing.

The most fundamental winning formula is to bet on human decency and be patient.

Life is a brief opportunity to do something prehumously.

There is no actual law that says that a person of inner beauty cannot also maintain an appearance.

Sometimes, in a moral struggle, we discover the right thing to do — just as, on some cold day long ago, we discovered mittens pinned to our coat sleeve.

We picture love as heart-shaped because we do not know the shape of the soul.

No matter how you hurry, you will notice at the end of the day that you traveled at the speed of time.

At my age, you not only have bittersweet memories, you make bittersweet plans.

As parents, we guide by our unspoken example. It is only when we're talking to them that our kids aren't listening.

To accept on faith is the basic requirement for getting on with life.

It's my luck that every time I feel I completely comprehend God's plan, I don't have a pencil with me.

There is nothing more essential to getting a project off the ground than the underestimate.

We realize we can't have everything, and so begins the mad scramble to have everything else.

One must look hard through history to find when a clear understanding of the truth moved anyone to fire the first shot.

There is a strong chance that siblings who turn out well were hassled by the same parents.

The easiest way to meet people is to just look like someone who is willing to listen.

What if man were required to educate his children without the help of talking animals.

It is possible at any age to discover a lifelong desire you never knew you had.