Quotes from Robert Brault

To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid.

Life is a series of tasks that you absolutely must get done before they don't matter any more.

What is the fire in our belly but the eternal flame of a thousand ancestors.

Sometimes an answer not yet blowin' in the wind is stirring in the breeze.

You always think you could have done more. That's why you need a friend — to tell you you did all you could.

Love is a condition where the world seems to be standing still, and it's you who are spinning on your axis.

Conscience is less an inner voice than the memory of a mother's glance.

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

In a soulmate we find not company but a completed solitude.

All my life I've wanted, just once, to say something clever without losing my train of thought.

The trouble with selfish motives is that they harden into principles, and you end up sending your kids to war for them.

Life is not fair, nor has it ever been, but the morning seems determined to dawn until it is.

You never get people's fuller attention than when you're listening to them.

There are memories I choose not to live with, but we hang out at the same bar.

There is a what-the-hell moment in life when you feel you have been pre-punished for every sin you'll ever commit.

I sit in my garden, gazing upon a beauty that cannot gaze upon itself. And I find sufficient purpose for my day.

Two people can have a middling day, but one rounds up and the other rounds down.

Few are humble, for it takes a self-esteem few possess.

Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden.

A rule that cannot be bent will certainly be broken.

As to the Seven Deadly Sins, I deplore Pride, Wrath, Lust, Envy and Greed. Gluttony and Sloth I pretty much plan my day around.

It is the first purpose of hope to make hopelessness bearable.

You must question a code of ethics that never impedes your progress.

If I had it to do again, I would less often judge myself and more often ask for a jury.