I really did sneak into Broadway shows, starting when I was 12.

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'.

They always always understimate women

What do I sing, and what does my tambourine sing?

Mind can comprehend things only at its particular level of vibration. As the mind become calm and quiet it can see and understand deeper things.

Women should marry when they are about eighteen years of age, and men at seven and thirty; then they are in the prime of life, and the decline in the powers of both will coincide.

No putt is too short to be despised.

A teacher or teaching is not essential for spiritual awakening, but they save time.

Heroes don't get anything but dead.

The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.

I fell in love with the land and with the very old fashioned idea of leaving a physical legacy for my children. A stunning place, with a magnificent forest of trees, and a magnificent river.

Let students use technologies in the classroom.