Liberating but hard to remember we're just bit-parts in the lives of people we know, who care very little for our secrets

We're terrible at realising what goes on in other people's heads because we are trapped inside our own.

Have your cake and eat it... there's no other reason to have a cake

I control the conditions so my testers become my testees.

The single most valuable human trait, the one quality every schoolchild and adult should be taught to nurture, is, quite simply, kindness.

To impress people as much as we would wish, we would first need to successfully adopt each of their value systems

...there is a fine line between wishing to produce child-like astonishment and treating people like infants.

The desire to impress is an efficient means of bringing out one’s least impressive qualities.

We forget our health and comfort and notice a pinching shoe. Much of living well is detaching from our boring stories of pain and shifting focus

Magic is a performance, and a performance should have an honesty, a relevance and a resonance if it is to be offered to spectators without insulting them.

I am often dishonest in my techniques ... I happily admit to cheating, it's all part of the game. I hope some of the fun for the viewer comes from not knowing what's real and what isn't

Your thoughts can torture you-but not the dead. They've moved on.

Property exists by grace of the law. It is not a fact but a legal fiction.

The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.

There is no religion in fact that I know that encourages or propagates violence in that its adherents should carry out.

I had kind of sworn off network TV a while ago.

When you start to see another human being as less than you, it's a danger.

I'm a pretty happy person, to be honest with you.

All these types of love come out of duty, respect, and gratitude. Most of them, as the women in my county know, are sources of sadness, rupture, and brutality.

When you have nothing to lose, the sky's the limit.

My mom lived by herself with two kids. Sacrifice was the name of the game at our house.