Few kids seek to learn a skill specifically designed to impress people unless they feel less than impressive themselves.

We're terrible at realising what goes on in other people's heads because we are trapped inside our own.

Have your cake and eat it... there's no other reason to have a cake

I control the conditions so my testers become my testees.

The single most valuable human trait, the one quality every schoolchild and adult should be taught to nurture, is, quite simply, kindness.

To impress people as much as we would wish, we would first need to successfully adopt each of their value systems

...there is a fine line between wishing to produce child-like astonishment and treating people like infants.

The desire to impress is an efficient means of bringing out one’s least impressive qualities.

We forget our health and comfort and notice a pinching shoe. Much of living well is detaching from our boring stories of pain and shifting focus

Magic is a performance, and a performance should have an honesty, a relevance and a resonance if it is to be offered to spectators without insulting them.

I am often dishonest in my techniques ... I happily admit to cheating, it's all part of the game. I hope some of the fun for the viewer comes from not knowing what's real and what isn't

Pains are not to be relievedSorrows are not to fade awaya slight change in the visionmay bring a new experience

The existence of hypocrites does not prove the non-existence of true believers.

As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation.

It takes five years for a willing person's mind to change. Have patience with yourself and others when treading in an area protected by a taboo.

If I can help and influence girls who are going through body-image issues then I think that's amazing.

If you asked central casting in Hollywood for somebody to play the role of President, they'd send you John Connally.

ʺWhy,ʺ he began slowly, ʺis Victor Dashkov joining us?ʺ ʺWell, itʹs kind of a funny story . . .ʺ

I may be able to put a good book tape on in the car on the way home and I will have a smile on my face.

There's no beginning to the farmer's year, / Only recurrent patterns on a scroll / Unwinding...