For my father, being kind was natural... I have to really work at it. I love competing and winning, conquest - not words you usually associate with kindness.

I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

the sight of me is good for sore eyes

When people say you can't do it - that it's impossible - never lose hope. Just because they couldn't doesn't mean you can't.

The real secret of magic lies in the performance.

It wasn't just about doing tricks. It's about taking an audience to another place, a special place, so they can really suspend their disbelief. Its about amazing the audience as well as moving them.

I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear.

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

The most important thing is presentation.

Stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will'.

Danielle had never started a business. But if others can do it, so can I.

Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!

Alcohol-inspired fights are a reminder of the price we pay for our daily submission at the altars of prudence and order.

At some point in your life, this statement will be true: tomorrow you will lose everything forever.

Know what you know and know that you don't know what you don't know — that is the characteristic of one who knows.

I wish I had an invisible plane to take me home to Brooklyn, and I wouldn't have to ride the subway.

I do think we think repetitively. It's so hard to get certain thoughts out of your head. If you're angry at a friend, you're going to keep going back to that conversation.

I actually think the subject of young divorce is pretty funny; I'd like to write a movie about it.

Here's what I suggest," he said. "You pretend that rats can think, and I'll promise to pretend that humans can think, too.

Love takes nothing: how can it take something? Everything belongs to it. It does not say, "This is mine! And this is mine!" But it says: "This is yours!"