Robert Brault

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

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

If you can’t forgive and forget, pick one.

Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

Ahh, that mountain of self-discovery. Every time you have reached the summit, the clouds clear and you see there is still a ways to go. Don’t look up with thoughts of despair; thinking how much further do I have to go?! Take a moment and look back to see how far you have come. Don’t lose sight of your accomplishments, and focus on the continued commitment to self-discovery and development.

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.

Opportunity makes a thief.

The people are to be taken in small doses.

Oftentimes, it’s the way we react to change that is the thing that determines the overall experience.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

Traveling is a fool’s paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.

Dare to think for yourself.

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man walking into the little booth with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. No amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of that point.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.