My object is to mystify and entertain. I wouldn't deceive you for the world.

You can fool the eyes and minds of the audience, but you cannot fool their hearts.

The average man is not hard to mystify.

Make them think they've been fooled by a gentlemen.

Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would noteIn me a beauty that was never mine, How first you knew me in a book I wrote, How first you loved me for a written line....

You can be as good as Rembrandt, but if no one discovers you, you will only be a genius in theory.

Anything a man can do, I can fix.

There is an epidemic right now of girls dumbing themselves down... in middle school because they think it makes them attractive.

Sleep in a world, your final sleep has woken

In the stream.- Mighty waters draw much stone and rubble along with them; mighty spirits many stupid and bewildered heads.

The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real.

Given the large uncertainties at each major step of the case for reliance on a carbon tax, economists should reconsider their current support for such a policy.

I'm glad to be a role model, but beyond that I'm a flawed human being, someone who continues to deal with my body image and what my purpose is on the planet.

But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.