Quotes from Robert Brault

A good speech has a beginning, a middle and an end, the best example being, "I love you."

If you knew that hope and despair were paths to the same destination, which would you choose?

Never act until you have clearly answered the question: "What happens if I do nothing?"

A holiday cocktail party is where some stranger will learn more about you in an hour than your spouse has learned in a lifetime.

Always when judging Who people are, Remember to footnote The words "So far."

I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it.

Whoever dreamed up Scrabble had an exaggerated idea of how many seven-letter words have five i's.

As a job seeker, remember this: You only lack experience if they want it done the same old way.

Once a man has won a woman's love, the love is his forever. He can only lose the woman.

So often the end of a love affair is death by a thousand cuts, so often its survival is life by a thousand stitches.

A nod, a bow, and a tip of the lid to the person who coulda and shoulda and did.

Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie — not perfect but who's complaining?

Shall I redirect my life's journey because down some sideroad might be some trifle I'm entitled to?

There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies.

When something is missing in your life, it usually turns out to be someone.

In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in.

On a windswept hill by a billowing sea, my destiny sits and waits for me.

Mom — the person most likely to write an autobiography and never mention herself.

Where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith.

Be thoughtful of others and you will not be shy, for they are incompatible addictions.

Seeking happiness, I passed many travelers headed in the opposite direction, seeking happiness.

Question reality, especially if it contradicts the evidence of your hopes and dreams.

Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't drown in the metaphor.