Quotes from Robert Brault

Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose — the eye sheds a tear to find its focus.

Road rage is the expression of the amateur sociopath in all of us, cured by running into a professional.

Optimist: someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it's a cha-cha.

In the end, no thought is unthinkable, no problem unshrinkable, no two strangers unlinkable.

We are each a dozen people who were all the same child.

Every day ask yourself, "What would I do today if I were a better person?"

There is an ongoing battle between conscience and self-interest in which, at some point, we have to take sides.

Sometimes it is the person closest to us who must travel the furthest distance to be our friend.

If I had it to do again, I'd ask more questions and interrupt fewer answers.

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

To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word "boo."

There are couples a matchmaker would match every time — and couples who, for no rhyme or reason, rhyme.

If I were Opportunity, I wouldn't just knock, you'd have to sign.

To truly forgive is to allow the other person to forget.

It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.

In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families — that they are least two-thirds incontinent.

An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it.

Each day learn something new, and just as important, relearn something old.

Retirement is having nothing to do and someone always keeping you from it.

It's annoying to be disapproved of by people who know only half the story, especially when you're not sure which half they know.

If you understand compound interest, you basically understand the universe.

What we seek in the end is not unconditional love but a love for which we, uniquely in all the world, meet all the conditions.

Without faith there is no truth, for that is all the truth is or ever was.

You can accept reality, or you can persist in your purpose until reality accepts you.