Pay attention to your visual themes.

Some of the best ideas I've gotten for my act have come from comedians and not magicians.

Read about the history of magic.

Use video to train assistants you'll be surprised how quickly they learn.

Spare no expense on the stuff that matters.

Dwelling on the sins of the past won't help us stop the evils of the present.

We are inscrutable even to ourselves, I suppose.

The people naturally adhere most to doctrines which demand the least self-exertion and the least use of their own reason, and which can best accommodate their duties to their inclinations.

Before you take that first curious, coerced, spiteful, or vengeful step forward, remember this: it’s a thousand times easier to slip into a muddy pit than it is to climb out of one.

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practises it without any hope of fame and money but even practises it without any hope of doing it well.

Every wise man lives in an observatory.

I went to high school in Lexington, Massachusetts, which in hindsight was very nice.

I have always been anonymous, that is the position I should be. And it is hard to say why or how you did something, it just happens.

Something in her small eyes caught the sunlight and glistened, like a glacier on the faraway face of a mountain.

And you cycle throughout so that you do about five to six cycles throughout the night. And we spend more time in REM later on in the night than we do earlier on.

In the temple we can find peace. The blessings of the temple are priceless.