Robert Breault Quotes

Lovers needn't always agree, anymore than poetry need always rhyme.

There is a time early in life when there seem to be countless reasons for happiness, and then you discover your mom is making them up.

Sometimes, as practice for trying to convince myself that God exists, I try to convince my shadow that the sun exists.

The hardest thing to learn in the game of love is when to fold a winning hand.

A family is a bunch of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a kid.

The first step toward telling the truth is to tell the whole lie.

So I said to myself, "There but for the grace of God go I," only to realize I was looking in a mirror and had seriously overestimated the grace of God.

Wealth and wisdom are seldom combined, for the person who achieves one no longer desires the other.

To truly forgive is to allow the other person to forget.

Love is given to us as a time, but to keep it always, we must make it a place.

To the artist, the Book of Genesis is an account of six days in which God suggested some really good ideas.

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

As any artist can tell you, it is easier to reach perfection than to stop there.

Through faith we learn to believe the evidence of our eyes.

Looking back on our lives, we invariably find that the person we pretended to be is the person we became.

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.

All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you.

Death is just another stage of life, although the one you kind of hope comes last.

Of what use to get what you want if you must become someone else to get it.

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

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

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.

Without faith there is no truth, for that is all the truth is or ever was.

Nowadays you envy a manic-depressive. Half the time he's happy, the other half he's right.

There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination.

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

Being loved by all is little fun Unless you're also loved by one.

I don't lie and cheat, but I don't always avoid actions that would be lying and cheating if someone else did them.

Perchance God will pity a race that sought the better angels of its nature and found only its lesser demons.

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

A blogger is constantly looking over his shoulder, for fear that he is not being followed.

A blogger is an average person who happens to have a need to count his friends every half hour.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single happy delusion that it can be done without a stop-over.

Act always from a sense of common humanity, and let God judge if it be charity.

Someday a computer will give a wrong answer to spare someone's feelings, and man will have invented artificial intelligence.

To accept on faith is the basic requirement for getting on with life.

There is nothing in this world you cannot accomplish if you are willing to forfeit your deposit.

I find in old age that it's possible to revisit the past, the one requirement being that you come as you are.

Science can reconstruct Tyrannosaurus Rex from a fossilized bone and a fancied footprint, but it can't reconstruct God from the whole of creation.