The fact is that violence gives you a rush.

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.

A crushing defeat is the most humbling inoculation for arrogance.

When politics is too slow, change has to come from culture.

The fact is remarkable, that though education in its higher degrees is popularly neglected in Siam, there is scarcely a man or woman in the empire who cannot read and write.

As a model, I didn't have an identity; I was a chameleon, a silent actress. I was an amorphous thing. I wasn't full of personality, I was full of solitude and solemnity. I wasn't a cover-girl type.

The heart of the gospel is redemption, and the essence of redemption is the substitutionary sacrifice of Christ.

I feel kind of sorry for those kids who just play one sport growing up.

Quite the most Christian thing that has happened in my lifetime is the Welfare State.

I can't selfishly take journeys anymore because I have to take a little boy along with me.

It takes deliberate and continuous effort to carve out time in our overfull schedules to listen to the voice of God.