Quotes from Robert Brault

Perception is a clash of mind and eye, the eye believing what it sees, the mind seeing what it believes.

How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it.

If I had my life to live over, I'd have fewer meetings and more rendezvous.

At the point where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith.

Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits.

What is a mom but the sunshine of our days and the north star of our nights.

Charisma is not so much getting people to like you as getting people to like themselves when you're around.

There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.

You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.

Overheard at a gravesite: "And they all said 'I'm sorry for your loss,' as if you were someone who could ever be taken from me."

Life is like sailing. You can use any wind to go in any direction.

Fate, Chance, God's Will — we all try to account for our lives somehow. What are the chances that two raindrops, flung from the heavens, will merge on a windowpane? Gotta be Fate.

One key to success is to have lunch at the time of day most people have breakfast.

Say what you want about aging, it's still the only way to have old friends.

Time is a figure eight, at its center the city of Déjà vu.

We have a choice every day — to act on yesterday's good intentions or get an early start on tomorrow's regrets.

A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse below and dreams of home.

Sometimes the shortest distance between two points is a winding path walked arm in arm.

If a rabbit defined intelligence the way man does, then the most intelligent animal would be a rabbit, followed by the animal most willing to obey the commands of a rabbit.

Be the master of your fate, be the captain of your soul, but do not hesitate, should the chance befall you, to be the slave of your heart.

I count myself lucky, having long ago won a lottery paid to me in seven sunrises a week for life.

I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little less anonymous.

Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius.