Quotes from Robert Brault

As a friend, you first give your understanding, then you try to understand.

Just once it might be instructive to pretend you're accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank.

Usually the woman has an appointment with destiny, and the man just happens to be there.

Life is too short to hold a grudge, also too long.

Skepticism is a religion very rich in evangelists but very short on saviors.

As I may or may not say to the Lord on Judgment Day, "You ask a lot of questions for someone who has so much explaining to do."

I've learned never to be surprised if what must inevitably happen happens right now.

Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.

I've observed that there are more lines formed than things worth waiting for.

I guess I have never really doubted that we are all born to our guardian angel.

It is not only possible to be the person you pretend to be, but there is less effort involved.

There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct.

Perchance God will pity a race that sought the better angels of its nature and found only its lesser demons.

There is a time early in life when there seem to be countless reasons for happiness, and then you discover your mom is making them up.

We are each of us born into the arms of mortality, the Lord recognizing our need to be held.

All is illusion, although as long as there's an illusion that the kids need to be fed, all might as well be reality.

As important as it is to keep picking yourself up and brushing yourself off, it's also important to stop tripping over your own two feet.

Now and then it's good to list all the things you regularly do for which there was once a good reason.

Do not mistake probability for truth, for it is a notorious liar.

It is easy to mistake being ready for a wedding with being ready for marriage.

Every day I go forth to seek my identity, feeling greatly blessed by the things I don't find it in.

The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else.

Just as important as having a list of priorities is every once in a while starting from the bottom.

Once an absurdity is accepted as truth, it will seem truer the more absurd it is shown to be.