No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding and heaven help us the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life.

The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.

No one is so completely disenchanted with the world or knows it so thoroughly or is so utterly disgusted with it that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it.

I never close a door on any other religion. Most of the time some part of it makes sense to me. I don't believe everyone has to chant just because I chant. I believe all religion is about touching something inside of yourself.

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.

In the past poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change.

I never really liked poetry readings I liked to read poetry by myself but I liked singing chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.

The sight of nature fascinates the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres.

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

I get up at sunrise. I'm a Buddhist so I chant in the morning. My wife and I sit and have coffee together but then it's list-making time. I have carpentry projects. We have roads we keep in repair. It's not back-breaking but it's certainly aerobic and mildly strenuous.

When I wrote the song I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea and the fishermen come up at five in the morning and they were all chanting. And we went on the beach and we got chased by a mad dog - big as a donkey.

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

He is the true enchanter whose spell operates not upon the senses but upon the imagination and the heart.

So I started chanting when I was nineteen which was about twelve years ago and it really had a huge impact on my outlook happiness and general creativity.

Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.

For the merchant even honesty is a financial speculation.

You know this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class a trading merchant class that is independent of your faith is a good notion but we're all partially different - it's no good imposing systems on people that it doesn't suit.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes such enchanted musical instruments as the ears and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

We are selling dreams. We are merchants of happiness.

Like all dreamers I mistook disenchantment for truth.

You don't have people chanting 'Death to America' in Israel.

The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.