C.J. Roberts Quotes

The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.

My Christmases have always just been very simple and about family.

Every moment is an experience.

I would run through brick walls for Spurs.

Your face tells a story and it shouldn't be a story about your drive to the doctor's office.

Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant.

A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Well, I can't figure out God.

People and relationships never stop being a work in progress

Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting

You are in physical existence to learn and understand that your energy, translated into feelings, thoughts and emotions, causes all experience. There are no exceptions.

Love is the passionate search for a truth other than your own; and once you feel it, honestly and completely, love is forever.

Men who are driven are happy in their work and their vision but are not happy-go-lucky. Evelyn has a happiness and contentment most of the time -- she's my balance.

We make destiny with every turn, every choice.

When you end up happily married, even the failed relationships have worked beautifully to get you there.

You must somehow understand that we as horsemen can do very little to teach the horse. What we can do is to create an environment in which he can learn.

There is none of you but will hang me, I know, whenever you can clinch me within your power.

If you don't ask, the answer is always no.

A fever is an expression of inner rage.

The wounded recognized the wounded.

The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.

Damn to him who ever lived to wear a Halter!

I cannot imagine my life without horses. They have been my teachers, my friends, my business partners and my entertainment.

You spend your life getting walked on, you learn to recognize the tread.

The greatest strength a man can achieve is gentleness.

Real emotion transcends language. You dont have to understand their words to feel their pain.

You should tell yourself frequently 'I will only react to constructive suggestions.' This gives you positive ammunition against your own negative thoughts and those of others.

The truth is that, no matter what kind of game you find yourself in, no matter how good or bad the luck, you can change your life completely with a single thought or a single act of love

When educating horses there is no greater maxim than slow is fast and fast is slow.

I enjoy hats. And when one has filthy hair, that is a good accessory.

By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of power by those in authority.

I find that when I tell lawyer jokes to a mixed audience, the lawyers don't think they're funny and the non-lawyers don't think they're jokes.

When we kill animals to eat them they end up killing us because their flesh...was never intended for human beings, who are naturally herbivores.

Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.

Yours is the energy that makes your world. There are no limitations to the self except those you believe in.

There are no mistakes. Only new paths to explore.

If fate doesn't make you laugh, you just don't get the joke.

In the summer of 80, Silhouette bought my first book.

You don't find time to write. You make time. It's my job.

We have a saying in Marseilles: a man in no hurry gets nowhere fast. I have been in no hurry for eight years.

You change the most permanent-seeming conditions of your life constantly through the varying attitudes you have toward them.

The real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it. - Karla

Horses react appropriately while waiting for the human to get it right.

The kind of energy I attract is very calm.

You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.

It's funny when people say, 'I don't think Julia likes me.' Honey, if I don't like you, you're going to know about it.

Dreams can be like charades in which we act out words rather than see or speak them.

The wonder of Independence is that it encourages open minds and the desire to improve.

The choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.

Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.