Indeed, most magicians catch the bug as kids. My first audience was my family in Long Island. My first 'assistant' was my mother, whom I levitated on a broom in our living room.

What you see is what you get.

It's so funny looking back, but my so-called overnight success actually took 15 years. I remember when I didn't have any money, and my only car was mom's Hyundai.

Magic speaks to the child in all of us. No matter how sophisticated we become, there's still a part of us who wants to believe in an alternative reality, where we can defy the laws of nature.

Reality is perspective. All you have to do is Believe.

Pain is a beautiful thing. When you feel pain, you know you're alive.

When you think like a child your imagination is free and anything is possible.

To me, it's never about the trick. I don't care about how something works. I care about how people feel when they watch it. You know, that - that connection - that emotional connection is true magic.

I am the Mindfreak, there's no Reality! Just this World of Illusion that keeps on haunting me.

I'm a workaholic. I work and work and work.

When the mind, body, and spirit work together, I believe anything is possible.

I guess you only know your home when you come back to it.

And maybe the only reason we have to fall back down to grow again is the same cause for the sun to rise and sink: our stars need time to shine at night to heal, to heal.

I've had experiences in my life where I've met certain people that have opened up something in me and given me hope and a new outlook on life.

Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.

To express the most difficult matters clearly and intelligently, is to strike coins out of pure gold.

I'm lucky, because I started action movies at the age of 25. Now I'm 47, and I'm still kicking like a mule, and I'm as flexible as before.

First of all, principles should be general. That is, it must be possible to formulate them without use of what would be intuitively recognized as proper names, or rigged definite descriptions.

There are no dreams too large, no innovation unimaginable and no frontiers beyond our reach.

It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have.

The will is free; Strong is the soul, and wise, and beautiful; The seeds of godlike power are in us still; Gods are we, bards, saints, heroes, if we will!