Quotes from Robert Brault

In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order.

Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life- and it was you. It is not too late to find that person again.

Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.

I am told to just be myself, but as much as I have practiced the impression, I am still no good at it.

Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.

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

The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.

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

A family is a group of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a kid.

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead

Love is the greatest touch-up artist of all

What we find in a soulmate is not something wild to tame, but something wild to run with.

To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.