Robert Breault Quotes

We all know them — the unstructured person whose every action seems aimless and the totally organized person whose every action defeats some purpose.

There is never an embarrassing silence that can't be turned into a regrettable conversation.

Be the master of your fate, be the captain of your soul, but do not hesitate, should the chance befall you, to be the slave of your heart.

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

The search for happiness is unlike any other search, for we search last in the likeliest places.

As you reach for understanding, you find that your ladder of facts isn’t long enough, and you try to extend it by adding a rung of faith. Eventually you see that the task is hopeless, and you put away your ladder of facts and go get a ladder of faith.

Oh, the things that go through my mind that I never say. Oh, the things I say that never go through my mind.

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

There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don't torture a painting that has already confessed.

Yes, to be a good parent, you have to sacrifice, but this is not a requirement of parenting, it is a requirement of being good at something.

Hope is a walk through a flowering meadow. One does not require that it lead anywhere.

I regret less the road not taken than my all-fired hurry along the road I took.

In the best of relationships you have two people who cannot think of anything that was not part of the deal.

One thing you learn in a long marriage is how many sneezes to wait before saying, "Bless you.

Be it human or animal, touch is a life-giving thing. Has anyone ever had a stroke or a heart attack while cozied up with a pet? I doubt it.

There comes a point in a relationship when you realize that you trust someone enough to let them keep their secrets.

It finally happened. I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, "In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions.

We all have our limitations, but when we listen to our critics, we also have theirs.

Ever get the feeling that sometime early in your life there must have been a briefing that you missed?

You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.

The last I heard from my destiny, it wanted me to make a legal U-Turn at my next opportunity.

If a language is corruptible, then a constitution written in that language is corruptible.

You spend 90% of your adult life hoping for a long rest and the last 10% trying to convince the Lord that you're actually not that tired.

One can only imagine how effective justice might be if admissible in a court of law.

One day you just say "To heck with it," and you go looking for trouble, and you find happiness.

Eventually soulmates meet, for they have the same hiding place.

Once you find someone to share your ups and downs, downs are almost as good as ups.

The thing about a friendly smile is not just that it makes people like you but that it makes them like themselves.

What is reality but the dreamworld of a limited imagination.

The wedding is where two people become one. The marriage is where they decide which one.

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

You can bear your troubles or shrug them off. They're your shoulders.

The human species is made up of seven billion subspecies each consisting of one specimen.

Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits

To hurt someone you know will forgive you is the unkindiest thing of all.

The best things in life are not only free, but the line is shorter.

As a gardener, I wonder if flowers really can't speak or just exercise unfailing good judgment in the matter.

The trouble with having a stubbornness contest with your kids is that they have your stubbornness gene.

Sometimes, to pursue a new idea, the artist must forfeit his deposit on an old idea.

It is the abiding faith of mortals that mortality is a temporary condition.

Always laugh off a slight insult, so that people will understand what it means when you're not laughing.

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

Perhaps I have lived my life to excess, but know what — if I had it to do over again, I would overdo it again.

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

No matter what it is, if you aren't happy striving for it, you won't be happy achieving it.

The key to enjoying the moment is to always carry a list of "Things I Gotta Do That Can Wait.

At the end of the day, Mother Nature has only one question for us: 'What life did you nurture today?

If you can't explain something in a few words, try fewer.