Poker would have never gotten on TV when we only had three networks.

One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality.

Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.

You get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right.

Atheism is the absence of religion. We don’t really need atheism. We just need to get rid of religion.

If you are doing something for reward or punishment, you do not have morality.

In music, if you hit a wrong note, people forgive you. In magic when something goes wrong, the entire art is destroyed.

I think voting for the lesser of two evils in game theory always leads to more evil.

Much better than the feeling of having things is the feeling of having earned things.

Better to be uneducated than educated by your government.

Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality.

I am not where I am because of luck. I am where I am because I took risks others weren’t willing to take. The world rewards the risk takers. It always has. It always will.

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what´s cool".

More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.

Let there be peace within my walls and prosperity within my palaces.

Being anxious is the worst feeling in the world.

There's no question that in my lifetime, the contrast between what I called private affluence and public squalor has become very much greater.

Your hair is a tangled mess,"he said, thinking he liked it that way, like a lion's mane.

It's wonderful to have money. But It's good that I know what the other side is like. I don't take for granted what I have now.

In relation to the question of hope, I think the only hope we have is hope against hope. We hope for a better world. But of course we can do better than just hope.