Robert Brault

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

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

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

An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.

Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.

When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

It is necessary to hope… for hope itself is happiness.

The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.

Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber; for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite.

Clogged with yesterday’s excess, the body drags the mind down with it.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength. True power is within and available to you now.

This is the foundation of all. We are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

Amuse not thy self therefore with the numerous Opinions of the World, nor value thy self upon verbal Orthodoxy, Philosophy, or thy Skill in Tongues, or Knowledge of the Fathers; (too much the Business and Vanity of the World). But in this rejoyce, That thou knowest God, that is the Lord, who exerciseth loving Kindness, and Judgment; and Righteousness in the Earth.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.