I like to read in the dark. I like to go into the bathtub, turn out all the lights, and in the dark, read my books.

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.

You are the conductor of your own attitude! Nobody else can compose your thoughts for you.

I’m from Texas…the bigger the hair, the closer to God!

Dollar bill: people spend their whole life seeking to earn it, but won't spend 10 minutes seeking to learn it.

I do reinvent old hits of mine and sort of give them a new life.

The thing about Nashville is, it's not just country music...There's rock & roll, there's every kind of music. It's just a music town...There's so much fun stuff to get in to.

If you lead, you will eventually serve with Judas or Peter.

So many people are passive participants in their very short time of having a consciousness, and those who aren't inspire me. Like Malala Yousafzai or a ninety-two-year-old yoga instructor.

If you provide the drive, dream, and vision, with God’s help, you can accomplish anything.

Have Jesus always for your patron, His Cross for a mast on which you must spread your resolutions as a sail. Your anchor shall be a profound confidence in Him, and you shall sail prosperously.

The Impersonal God seen through the mists of sense is personal.