Robert Brault

"To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness."

- Robert Brault

"To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms, but absolutely terrified of the word boo."

- Robert Brault

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

- Robert Brault

"Turn your love into promises, that when you doubt your love, you may simply ask, “Am I keeping my promises?”"

- Robert Brault

"A parent's love is whole no matter how many times divided."

- Robert Brault

"I don't know that there are real ghosts and goblins, but there are always more trick-or-treater than neighborhood kids."

- Robert Brault

"I don't know that there are real ghosts and goblins, but there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood kids."

- Robert Brault

"On the Sixth Day, God created man, the sort of result you often get when you go to work on a Saturday."

- Robert Brault

"A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don’t even have."

- Robert Brault

"A worthy New Year's resolution, perhaps, is to take no hatred into the New Year without requiring it to restate its purpose."

- Robert Brault

"The lesson of Good Friday is to never lose hope — or at least give it 48 hours."

- Robert Brault

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

- Robert Brault

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

- Robert Brault

"I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it."

- Robert Brault

"The happiest memories are of moments that ended when they should have."

- Robert Brault

"Optimist. Someone who isn’t sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play."

- Robert Brault

"Sometimes we don’t find the thing that will make us happy because we can’t give up the thing that was supposed to"

- Robert Brault

"Two things are owed to truthfulness: lasting marriages and short friendships."

- Robert Brault

"Most of us don’t need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with."

- Robert Brault

"For lack of an occasional expression of love, a relationship strong at the seams can wear thin in the middle."

- Robert Brault

"I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar."

- Robert Brault

"The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company, pets we allow into our solitude."

- Robert Brault

"In the end there doesn’t have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to."

- Robert Brault

"Why try to explain miracle to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden."

- Robert Brault

"A good marriage is each for the other and two against the world."

- Robert Brault

"One key to success is to have lunch at the time of day most people have breakfast."

- Robert Brault

"In the end, there doesn't have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to."

- Robert Brault

"Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got."

- Robert Brault

"If you cannot forgive and forget, pick one."

- Robert Brault

"Optimist: someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster; it’s more like a cha-cha."

- Robert Brault

"Optimism: Someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it’s a Cha-Cha."

- Robert Brault

"Optimist: someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it’s more like a cha-cha."

- Robert Brault

"Optimist, someone who figures that taking a step backwards after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it’s cha cha."

- Robert Brault

"Often, what seems an impossible climb is just a staircase without the steps drawn in."

- Robert Brault

"Ever wonder where you’d end up if you took your dog for a walk and never once pulled back on the leash?"

- Robert Brault

"Take the time to enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."

- Robert Brault

"True commitment begins when we reach the point of not knowing how we can possibly go on, and decide to do it anyway."

- Robert Brault

"It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it."

- Robert Brault

"A parent’s love is whole no matter how many times divided."

- Robert Brault

"What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering."

- Robert Brault

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

- Robert Brault

"I would love to go back and travel the road not taken, if I knew at the end of it I’d find the same set of grandkids."

- Robert Brault

""What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.""

- Robert Brault

"In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families: that they are at least two-thirds incontinent."

- Robert Brault

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."

- Robert Brault

"Enjoy the little things, for, one day, you may look back and realize they were the big things."

- Robert Brault

"There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude."

- Robert Brault

"Enjoy the small things in life, because one day you will look back only to realize that they were the big things."

- Robert Brault

"Enjoy the little things in life… For one day you’ll look back and realize they were the big things."

- Robert Brault

"Massage is the only form of physical pleasure to which nature forgot to attach consequences."

- Robert Brault

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

- Robert Brault

"Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it."

- Robert Brault

"Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie."

- Robert Brault

"Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true."

- Robert Brault

"A child seldom needs a good talking to as much as a good listening to."

- Robert Brault

"A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to."

- Robert Brault