Robert Breault Quotes

As I may or may not say to the Lord on Judgment Day, "You ask a lot of questions for someone who has so much explaining to do"

If I had my life to live over, I'd have fewer meetings and more rendezvous.

Present yourself always As who you would be, And that is the person The world will see.

Seize every opportunity along the way, for how sad it would be if the road you chose became the road not taken.

I've been looking over the list of spring chores I made up last fall, and darned if they aren't fall chores, after all.

I count myself lucky, having long ago won a lottery paid to me in seven sunrises a week for life.

Why be saddled with this thing called life expectancy? Of what relevance to an individual is such a statistic? Am I to concern myself with an allotment of days I never had and was never promised? Must I check off each day of my life as if I am subtracting from this imaginary hoard? No, on the contrary, I will add each day of my life to my treasure of days lived. And with each day, my treasure will grow, not diminish.

Sometimes we give up a dream to play a larger role in someone else's dream.

Do not be surprised when those who ignore the rules of grammar also ignore the law. After all, the law is just so much grammar.

Most often, walking alone with my shadow is how I find my answer, the result of gathering together all agreeable parties.

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

What you don't realize as a kid is that if your parents are always going to be there for you, they aren't going to be somewhere else doing exciting and glamorous things.

The only creature on earth whose natural habitat is a zoo is the zookeeper.

Art is an attempt to understand, yielding pleasure in the attempt whether or not we understand.

Sometimes the shortest distance between two points is a winding path walked arm in arm.

If indeed the death of a child is part of a larger plan, you wonder if God ever considered a smaller plan.

For every person who atones, a hundred others find regret sufficient.

The strongest marriage is between two who seek the same God, the strongest friendship between two who flee the same devil.

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

If there's anything better than a God-given talent, it's a God-given day job.

It's sad when two people who could never part without a kiss come to the point where they never part and so never kiss.

I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose.

God left so many fingerprints at the scene of Creation that you wonder — does He want to be found, or does He want to be stopped?

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

At my age, you not only have bittersweet memories, you make bittersweet plans.

The Lord gives us friends to push us to our potential — and enemies to push us beyond it.

Every great artist raises art to a science, and every great scientist raises science to an art, hence we have Michelangelo's David and Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

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

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

It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it

No matter how you hurry, you will notice at the end of the day that you traveled at the speed of time.

An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject.

There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly-lit front porch.

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

What you discover about people you try not to offend is that you can offend them without trying.

People are resilient. After all, every person born has recovered from nine months on life support.

Today's Parenting Tip: Treat a difficult child the way you would your boss at work. Praise his achievements, ignore his tantrums and resist the urge to sit him down and explain to him how his brain is not yet fully developed.

Looking back, you realize that everything would have explained itself if you had only stopped interrupting.

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

I am not certain of the hereafter. Frankly, I'm not all that certain of the here.

A good marriage is each for the other and two against the world.

Those who avoid the tough choices of life, live a life they never chose.

In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.

I say to my child, I will explain to you as much of life as I can, but you must remember that there is a part of life for which you are the explanation.

There is part of us that stands in quiet witness to what we do, taking notes, waiting for a solitary moment to bring up the subject.

Never use the passing years as an excuse for old age.

The choice so often these days is to believe something that seems insane or go insane.

There comes a time when a man and woman realize that their separate schemes can be better achieved as a conspiracy.