Quotes from Robert Brault

I look into the faces of people struggling with their own lives, and I do not see strangers.

The trick to writing an aphorism is to place a period at the point where you're inclined to say, "in other words...."

We lack resolve and blame fate, mistaking the drift for the tides.

We never give up wanting things for ourselves, but there comes a day when what we want for ourselves is someone else's happiness.

There comes a point in a relationship when you realize that you trust someone enough to let them keep their secrets.

So often our greatest triumph is a willing surrender.

The search for happiness is unlike any other search, for we search last in the likeliest places.

Eventually, if you're lucky in life, you find someone with the same chemical imbalance you have.

Alas, by the time Fate caught up with my life, Chance had it all planned.

It is sad when two people turn from the paths they're traveling, and their paths go on to cross without them.

Among life's regrets is all the time wasted being early for everything.

Yes, to be a good parent, you have to sacrifice, but this is not a requirement of parenting, it is a requirement of being good at something.

I am not your dog, but if every time you saw me, you gave me a backrub, I would run to greet you, too.

The greatest gift we give to someone who loves us is simply to be happy.

Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?

The road to success is wherever people need another road.

The trick to getting ahead is to give it the same effort you give to getting even.

What a blessing it is to be alone with your thoughts when so many are alone with their inability to think.

I've been looking over the list of spring chores I made up last fall, and darned if they aren't fall chores, after all.

In the best of relationships you have two people who cannot think of anything that was not part of the deal.

If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door.

I find in old age that it's possible to revisit the past, the one requirement being that you come as you are.

Looking back on a happy life, one realizes that one was not happy all the time.

The happiest memories are of moments that ended when they should have.