A magician is only an actor - an actor pretending to be a magician.

No prison can hold me; no hand or leg irons or steel locks can shackle me. No ropes or chains can keep me from my freedom.

My Brain is the key that sets me free.

Never try to fool children, they expect nothing, and therefore see everything.

What the eyes sees, the ear hears, and the mind believes.

Never tell the auidience how good you are, they will soon find out for themselves.

Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because they can't understand it.

Some say I do it this way, others say I do it that way, but I say I do it the other way.

Keep up your enthusiasm! There is nothing more contagious than exuberant enthusiasm.

The greatest escape I ever made was when I left Appleton, Wisconsin.

An old trick well done is far better than a new trick with no effect.

Today I was a teacher, employed. True, I was also a teacher untried, but that could also be an advantage. I would learn, by God I’d learn. Nothing was going to stop me.

When we hear the bird sing, it hears only how to love. (Quand on entend l'oiseau chanter, - Lui n'entend que comment aimer.)

Of course he seems to have quite a mind of his own and that is probably where he is weakest.

The workers are the saviors of society the redeemers of the race.

The goal of art was the vital expression of self.

If you knew you had to fight for your life tomorrow, would you change your training today?

Who knows why I had to go through what I had to go through to produce the kind of music I produce today, to be one of the greatest Africans playing music, who knows?

I'm a moderate and a centrist. That means I get flak from both sides. The upside is that I can vote for either party whenever I feel like it without any sense of obligation or betrayal.

... the state is not absolute, and loyalty to the state cannot be absolute.

Oh, I have passed a miserable night, so full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams!