Quotes from Robert Brault

Success is a tale of obstacles overcome, and for every obstacle overcome, an excuse not used.

I don't hate anyone. The only people I know well enough to hate, I love.

I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime.

In many areas of understanding, none so much as in our understanding of God, we bump up against a simplicity so profound that we must assign complexities to it to comprehend it at all. It is mindful of how we paste decals to a sliding glass door to keep from bumping our nose against it.

I identify more with people who ask each day for divine guidance than people equipped with a divine guidance system.

If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.

There is part of us that stands in quiet witness to what we do, taking notes, waiting for a solitary moment to bring up the subject.

Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will be in breathless pursuit.

Once you become the mommy or daddy in your child's world, it is the only world in which you exist, no matter how much you fancy there is a separate world of your own.

The best way to dispel negative thoughts is to require that they have a purpose.

What do we ask of friendship except to be taken for what we pretend to be — and without having to pretend.

I have never met anyone who wanted to save the world without my financial support.

We are Godseekers all, though some be churchgoing believers and others pilgrims to an unknown shrine.

A commuter tie-up consists of you — and people who for some reason won't use public transit.

Sometimes I imagine a get-together where I introduce my family to my blogger friends and my blogger friends introduce my family to me.

One learns to ignore criticism by first learning to ignore applause.

Basically we are all looking for someone who knows who we are and will break it to us gently.

An art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art.

Ah, yes, my social life — a series of encounters where we briefly debate who is in the greater rush.

One thing you learn in a long marriage is how many sneezes to wait before saying, "Bless you."

A lovers' quarrel is always about every quarrel you ever had.

In nature we see where God has been. In our fellow man, we see where He is still at work.

There is a language of love, which is to say, a truth that does not tell all and a lie that does not deceive.

You can bear your troubles or shrug them off. They're your shoulders.