New Thoughts From An Old Head

"You know you're succeeding when the people telling you it can't be done start changing their reasons."


"An optimist believes that the best in the human spirit will prevail. So do I, and I'm not an optimist."


"It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background."


"I refuse to be burdened by vague worries. If something wants to worry me, it will have to make itself clear."


"My age? Let me put it this way. In the dance of life, I am applauding the band."


"Every human being is a process. Me, I'm a process for converting good red wine into the milk of human kindness."


"A new Western renaissance may today seem impossible, but the lesson of human progress is that a thing is only impossible until it becomes inevitable."


"The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else."


"Meanwhile, I've been boning up on Wall St. firms, should the day ever come when I'm incapable of mismanaging my own investments."


"There was never a government that didn't feel threatened by three or more people holding hands in public."


"There are 6.6 billion human beings, each responding in his or her own unique and individual way to the gravitational pull of the moon."


~~ Robert Brault