Quotes by Robert Brault

“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.”

“When compiling his great dictionary, the young Noah Webster travels to the Himalayas, where he climbs to the cave of the world's wisest man. "O, great sage," he says, "tell me the meaning of life." The sage sits Noah at his feet and, with great solemnity, commences to unfold the meaning of life. When finished, he places a hand on the young man's shoulder and says, "Do you have any other questions, my son?" Noah flips a page in his notebook and says, "You wouldn't know the meaning of lift, would you?"”

“I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime.”

“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.”

“In the end, no thought is unthinkable, no problem unshrinkable, no two strangers unlinkable.”

“Life is a brief opportunity to do something prehumously.”

“There is a lesson we learn early and harmlessly, or late and traumatically — that there are things we can break that our parents can't fix.”

“Life is a series of reactions that aren't what you intend, to situations that aren't what they seem.”

“Life is a series of paths you don't know you're choosing... decisions you don't know you're making... farewells you don't know you're saying.”

“Life is a series of family photos in which you keep moving to the rear until finally you're a portrait in the background.”

“My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a bookmark.”

“You live long enough in a world spinning on its axis, you learn to spin in the same direction.”