In music, if you hit a wrong note, people forgive you. In magic when something goes wrong, the entire art is destroyed.

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.

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.

Every time something really bad happens, people cry out for safety, and the government answers by taking rights away from good people

They do not realize that a myth is dead if it no longer lives and grows. Our myth has become mute, and gives no answers.

Everyone chases after happiness not noticing that happiness is at their heels.

I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money.

It was progressively more difficult to find work in the theatre, as well.

Had I known of the actual horrors of the German concentration camps, I could not have made The Great Dictator, I could not have made fun of the homicidal insanity of the Nazis.

I don't think there's a limit as long as I keep my head right, don't get above myself, work hard and remember where I came from.

We are all equal in the sense that no man must mean - must be - the means for the purposes of another man; but each individual is an end in itself.

If you keep performing, and if you stay healthy, you keep playing.

I have a humorous side but these days humour can be a risky thing.

I don't thrive in a word-perfect environment.