I believe very much that the most damning thing you can say about Muslims is that you're afraid to say anything because they'll hurt you.

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.

Live a sacred life in the fullness God’s grace.

genius is 1 per cent inspiration and 99 per cent perspiration

He (Daedalus) would follow that bearing, the sun on his shoulders and the past slipping away.

It was as if someone had taken a tiny bead of pure life and decking it as lightly as possible with down and feathers, had set it dancing and zigzagging to show us the true nature of life.

I dont necessarily go to church every week, but I am a Christian, and I believe in God and Jesus Christ.

When I was younger, I was one of the few girls in the neighborhood who could break dance. That's kind of my local, ghetto-celebrity claim to fame.

I don't view myself as outrageous - that's not the intention. Its to be more and more original.

I want to say to the people, if I am a star, the people made me a star. No studio, no person, but the people did.

The role of third parties is to sting like a bee, then die.

We need to forge a whole new energy and American Dream.