My friend Richard Carrion, the CEO of Puerto Rico’s top bank, once shared a line with me that I’ll never forget: “Robin, nothing fails like success.” Powerful thought. Your business is most vulnerable when it’s most successful. Success actu...
Literary fiction and poetry are real marginalized right now. There's a fallacy that some of my friends sometimes fall into, the ol' "The audience is stupid. The audience only wants to go this deep. Poor us, we're marginalized because of TV, the great...
A friend once told me that the real message Bram Stoker sought to convey in 'Dracula' is that a human being needs to live hundreds and hundreds of years to get all his reading done; that Count Dracula, basically nothing more than a misunderstood book...
Princess Jasmine: Please, try to understand. I've never done a thing on my own. I've never had any real friends. [Rajah grumbles in protest] Princess Jasmine: Except you, Rajah. [Rajah purrs happily] Princess Jasmine: I've never even been outside the...
Why are so many of us enspelled by myths and folk stories in this modern age? Why do we continue to tell the same old tales, over and over again? I think it's because these stories are not just fantasy. They're about real life. We've all encountered ...
A wound inflicted by a friend does not heal.
A friend is worth more than a brother.
The road to a friend's house is never long.
To a friend's house the road is never long.
An old enemy never becomes a friend.
Of everything else the newest; of friends, the oldest.
No road is too long in the company of a friend.
Over-intelligent people can't find friends.
A rock offered by a friend is like an apple.
A friend to everybody and to nobody is the same thing.
Short judgments make long friends.
To see a friend no road is too long.
Over the bottle many a friend is found.
She’s beautiful to look at, she’s new, she’s clean, and perfectly cut. But then you get up and look closely and see that she’s not real. She’s a fake. She doesn't glimmer like a natural diamond or hold the beauty and unbreakable strength of...
Without understanding your place as a conscious entity manifesting and engaging an experiential Reality, you will only be able to perceive Jesus within the confines of your belief structure. And that would present that hall-of-mirrors Jesus caricatur...
Ellen Griswold: [after the bartender shoots at Clark] Clark, I don't think that was funny. A loud noise like that could damage the kids' hearing. Clark Griswald: C'mon, Ellen. It looked real. Hell - I thought it was a real gun. Didn't you think it wa...
