Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but Im more interested in telling a story.

Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.

The tools of social networking: These are the digital campfires around which the audience gathers to hear our story.

One of the key qualities of all stories is that they are made to be shared.

The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction — there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome.

We willingly enter fictional worlds where we cheer our heroes and cry for friends we never had.

Magic [makes] possible today what science will make a reality tomorrow.

The Chinese general Sun Tzu said that all war was based on deception. Oscar Wilde said the same thing of romance.

Everything I did, I did for mankind.

The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction - there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome.

O Lord, Thy Word, revive my soul.

If I'm not on a cruise, I'm either thinking about my last one or planning my next!

The mark of a legitimate revolution - the scientific, for example - was that it didn't brag about its revolutionariness but simply occurred.

In my opinion, education is the finest gift an individual can give a young person.

Satiation, like any state of vitality, always contains a degree of impudence, and that impudence emerges first and foremost when the sated man instructs the hungry one.

The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.

Beware of preoccupying your heart with what it has not been created for.

Bigotry and hatred and prejudice rise and fall depending on certain situations.

So, when I got the contract for my album, even though it was an English record, my manager insisted on making sure we would record in Spanish as well, and it worked out really well for me.

My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.