Quotes from Robert Brault

We gain no easier advantage than by relentlessly pursuing our goal while others pursue an advantage.

If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.

Time brings an end to everything. We should not mistake for a tragedy what is no more than the passage of time.

The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company, pets we allow into our solitude.

What you discover about life's shell game is that it's hardest to follow the pea when you're the pea.

Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play.

I enjoy many silent moments with my cat, a conversation always resumed exactly where left off.

Sometimes it's worth getting lost to see who will come looking for us.

Eventually, time takes care of everything. The trouble with procrastination is that people give up on it too soon.

After 5000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, What part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand?

Sometimes fate brings two people together by causing one to misinterpret a smile.

Life never tires of testing the proposition that life must go on.

Wall Street criminality is growing by leaps. There are no bounds.

You can accept a falling out that changes your plans, but it's hard to accept a betrayal that changes your memories.

Never point a finger where you never lent a hand.

The trouble with, "A place for everything and everything in its place" is that there's always more everything than places.

Act always from a sense of common humanity, and let God judge if it be charity.

Some day man will travel at the speed of light, of small interest to those of us still trying to catch up to the speed of time.

Each morning I gaze at the eastern horizon, and if the sun keeps its promise, I keep mine.

It's not that perfection cannot be achieved. It's that it's so hard to stop there.

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

The brain forgets much, but the lower back remembers everything.

There is a purpose to our lives that each day tugs at our sleeve as an annoying distraction.

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