Audiences are far from being as dumb as some performers seem to think.

...any effect to be successful must first be founded upon a simple method and then be performed with a direct to-the-point presentation.

Look for all the world like you're counting the brain cells in his cranium.

Magic clubs have as much to do with magic as country clubs have with being in the country.

Grunt, foam at the mouth, and otherwise get psychic.

Without fools there would be no wisdom.

Where you see yourself is more important than where you actually are!

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we suppose ourselves to be.

I know who likes football likes me

The war has jerked us pretty sharply into consciousness about this slug-a-bed sin of Sloth, and perhaps we need not say too much about it. But two warnings are rather necessary.

You when the storm is raging - how do you face despair? It is you that the world discovers, whatever the clothes you wear.

You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you? . . . If it's by a good author, it's a good play, naturally. That stands to reason.

This can't be true but I remember it.

I told my doctor, "I've swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills" and he told me to have a few drinks and get some rest.

Whether it was a song, a person, or a story, there was a lot you couldn’t know from just an excerpt, a glance, or part of a chorus.