Quotes from Robert Brault

You get to an age when there are really just two reasons to get up in the morning — for goodness sake and for heaven's sake.

The Lord gives us friends to push us to our potential — and enemies to push us beyond it.

Try to discover The road to success And you'll seek but never find, But blaze your own path And the road to success Will trail right behind.

Few can accept happiness if it means change. We want the life we have now, only happier.

For some it is love undeniably. For others it is making it work, never actually knowing what it is.

The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective.

When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars.

No matter how reclusive we tend to be, we picture the after-life as a community of souls. It is one thing to seek privacy in this life; it is another to face eternity alone.

I'm right-handed, whereas the fellow in my mirror is left-handed. I start shaving from the left; he starts from the right. Differences only in perception, but religious wars have been fought over such.

As any artist can tell you, it is easier to reach perfection than to stop there.

We are known to our friends by a look in our eyes that we never see in a mirror.

For every "Drive Safely" sign, shouldn't there be a "Resume Normal Driving" sign?

The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.

No one complains of being a prisoner of love who has ever been a prisoner of loneliness.

It's hard to make up your bed while you're still sleeping in it. Hard to make up your mind for the same reason.

Hope is a walk through a flowering meadow. One does not require that it lead anywhere.

The toughest test of good judgment is to know when to withhold your better judgment.

You live long enough in a world spinning on its axis, you learn to spin in the same direction.

It is not necessary to be strong in every place if in the place you are vulnerable, you are loved.

We labor to make a house a home, then every time we're expecting visitors, we rush to turn it back into a house.

Sometimes a couple stays together for the sake of the kids — two kids who pledged to be forever true.

Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law what He had ensured by love.

We are each the star of our own situation comedy, and, with luck, the screwball friend in somebody else's.

You will find that if you really try to be a father, your child will meet you halfway.