Robert Breault Quotes

If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be.

If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.

I don't know that there are haunted houses. I know that there are dark staircases and haunted people.

If you think that someone is out to steal everything you have, you're either paranoid or a member of the middle class.

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

I like friends who, when you tell them you need a moment alone, know enough not to stray too far.

An art critic is someone who hopes to see his ideas translated to canvas without having to learn how to paint.

I'm right-handed, whereas the fellow in my mirror is left-handed. I start shaving from the left; he starts from the right. Differences only in perception, but religious wars have been fought over such.

A commuter tie-up consists of you — and people who for some reason won't use public transit.

One must look hard through history to find when a clear understanding of the truth moved anyone to fire the first shot.

Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?

If you don't decide what your life is about, it defaults to what you spend your days doing.

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

What good is love if you never ask anything of it?

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

Often what we take for a kindness is just someone acting in their capacity as a human being.

As you seek new opportunity, keep in mind that the sun does not usually reappear on the horizon where last seen.

Sometimes love needs a rest from caring, and so bears for an intolerable few hours the guilt of not caring.

We are known to our friends by a look in our eyes that we never see in a mirror.

Perception is a clash of mind and eye, the eye believing what it sees, the mind seeing what it believes.

There are times when you seek your solitude, and your solitude just wants to be left alone.

The problem with putting off things you've always wanted to do is that eventually you run out of always.

Occasionally ask, "What is the connection between what I want most in life and anything I plan to do today?

The more side roads you stop to explore, the less likely that life will pass you by.

In the end, who among us does not choose to be a little less right to be a little less lonely.

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

It's a nasty divorce when they can't agree on how to divvy up the His and Hers towels.

Be thoughtful of others and you will not be shy, for they are incompatible addictions.

If you could eavesdrop on everything said about you, you'd spend most of your time waiting for the subject to come up.

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.

It helps if you don't see it as traffic but rather as thousands of individuals resolved to press on another day.

Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other.

According to science, the universe began as a swirl of gas that, as it cooled, spun off the Ten Commandments.

Mom - the person most likely to write an autobiography and never mention herself.

There would be a lot more optimists if it weren't for the rise-and-shine requierement.

Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will be in breathless pursuit.

It is still possible to have friendly discourse in America, as long as you don't bring up any subject.

You can't postpone sorrow, so why would you postpone happiness?

Among creatures born into chaos, a majority will imagine an order, a minority will question the order, and the rest will be pronounced insane.

If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.

The trouble with not being into social networking is that people think you're anti-social when you're only anti-networking.

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

Is it my imagination, or does shipping and handling settle a box of crackers more than it used to?

Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological.

Marriage is nature's way of ensuring that a woman picks up some mothering experience before she has her first child.

Life starts out as partly destiny and partly free will, but then you have kids, and it's all destiny.

The secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness.

Ah, the things we would do if we could — especially in the secure knowledge that we can't.