Robert Breault Quotes

A successful artist is inspired by his muse, and his muse is inspired by the payment of a commission.

As a friend, you first give your understanding, then you try to understand.

Though the barriers of life seem formidable, we find when we challenge them that they have no will.

My health plan doesn't cover dental, so I enrolled my teeth as 32 dependents, each needing a complete physical once a year.

God answers first the prayers we should have prayed.

Name the season’s first hurricane Zelda and fool Mother Nature into calling it a year.

In the end, success is not about who you know, it's about you know who.

The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else.

If God had intended us to be alone, there would be more pleasure in massaging our own shoulders.

The older you get, the fewer things it seems too late to do.

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

In every gardener there is a child who believes in The Seed Fairy.

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.

Love is not about grand intentions. It is about small attentions.

There are couples a matchmaker would match every time - and couples who, for no rhyme or reason, rhyme.

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

If you could travel back in time to the present moment, what would you do differently?

Worse than telling a lie is spending the rest of your life staying true to a lie.

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

Optimist: Someone who figures that taking a step backwards after taking a step forwards is not a disaster. It's a cha-cha.

The artist gazes upon a reality and creates his own impression. The viewer gazes upon the impression and creates his own reality.

Sometimes it's worth getting lost to see who will come looking for us.

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

God sends the dawn that we might see the might-have-beens that still might be.

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

Once an absurdity is accepted as truth, it will seem truer the more absurd it is shown to be.

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

There are secrets I will take to the grave and others I'd feel safer having cremated.

The shy and the extroverted have this in common — that they both fancy they are the center of attention.

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

The experience I gained at age 21 would be useful if I were ever 21 again. But I'm 71 and new at it and keep making age 71 mistakes.

The great enemy of achievement is a schedule already full.

To stretch the truth is to tell a lie.

If you don't watch out, putting on your unhappiness in the morning can become as instinctive as putting on your clothes.

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

Man, in his sensitivity, does not give names to animals he intends to eat but goes on giving names to children he intends to send to war.

Hamlet at 70: "To sleep, perchance to dream. To awaken, perchance to go to the bathroom."

I have never considered it my business to disabuse someone of a belief that makes life tolerable for them.

Yes, I worry about the craziest things, but better me than someone less qualified.

The best way to dispel negative thoughts is to require that they have a purpose.

It's a safe bet that someone who tells you you need to calm down has never actually seen you when you needed to calm down.

Love may be blind, but if you've ever known a blind person, they still know where everything is.

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

Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way.

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

Sign over the gates of hell: "Doesn't mean you're a bad person."

Sometimes it is the person closest to us who must travel the furthest distance to be our friend.

The hardest thing about reality is returning to it after an hour inside your child's mind.

It is not happiness until you capture it and store it out of the reach of time.

The trick to liking who you are is not to hate too much the person it turned out you weren't.