Don't waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious; it'll make you bugnutty.

One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality.

Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.

You get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right.

Atheism is the absence of religion. We don’t really need atheism. We just need to get rid of religion.

If you are doing something for reward or punishment, you do not have morality.

In music, if you hit a wrong note, people forgive you. In magic when something goes wrong, the entire art is destroyed.

I think voting for the lesser of two evils in game theory always leads to more evil.

Much better than the feeling of having things is the feeling of having earned things.

Better to be uneducated than educated by your government.

Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality.

In any situation, I ask “What can I do for myself”.

That's the key to success, isn't it? It has to be fun.

I define coaching as launching the salesperson on a voyage of discovery by asking questions.

John Hughes loved improvisers.

Most governments are designed to protect the government from the people, whereas the United States government was organized to protect the people from the government.

There's definitely a large fan base for the 'Twilight' and 'Harry Potter' movies that need their next fix.

This boa, the American columns, are being besieged between Basra and other towns north, west, south and west of Basra. The Americans are the people who are under siege.

Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.

The dead they sleep a long, long sleep; The dead they rest, and their rest is deep; The dead have peace, but the living weep.

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.