Quotes from Robert Brault

In the end there doesn't have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to.

If Creation were a crime, would not God be the prime suspect?

[T]he devil... seldom leads people astray anymore, finding it easier to just follow along in their footsteps.

History is man's best guess as to what the past would look like if everything had happened in chronological order.

Either way, things are a lot better — either a lot better than they were or a lot better than they're going to be.

You spend 90% of your adult life hoping for a long rest and the last 10% trying to convince the Lord that you're actually not that tired.

It is the fancy of every mortal that being cradled in the arms of mortality is a safe place for the time being.

While I find that I can keep my nose out of other people's business, I do have a curiosity as to their non-business activities.

In the end you regret less the things you believed that weren't true than the things that never came true because you didn't believe.

Eventually you realize that your whole life up to now has been preparation, and you begin to suspect that the rest might be preparation, too.

The best things in life are not only free, but the line is shorter.

Sometimes two people need to step apart and make a space between that each might see the other anew, in a glance across a room or silhouetted against the moon.

Be it in the garden, the nursery or the bedroom, a loving touch compensates for an unskilled hand.

Perhaps we are given a mom that we might take into death the memory of a lullaby.

From an aunt, long ago: "Death has come for me many times but finds me always in my lovely garden and leaves me there, I think, as an excuse to return."

The trouble with always leaving yourself a way out is that you always take it.

God sends the dawn that we might see the might-have-beens that still might be.

There's nothing like self-improvement to get your friends to like you for who you were.

As a gardener, I'm among those who believe that much of the evidence of God's existence has been planted.

The perfect family board game is one that can be played each time with fewer pieces.

More good has been accomplished by simple people seeking their own honest ends than by all the philanthropists in history.

I look at it this way. I'm not an eavesdropper; I have an attention surplus disorder.

Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it.

A man finds love and is satisfied. A woman finds love and insists on turning it into happiness.