The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.

In magic, today as always, the effect is what counts. The method or methods used are always purely secondary.

What the eyes see, the heart must believe.

Most magicians consider the palm an easy move to make. They are inclined to believe that they are 'getting away with it,' when they are in fact fortunate enough to have a polite audience.

A good magic effect should easily be described in one sentence.

Don't make unimportant things important

A large movement covers a small movement

If I could climax as many times as a Derek Dingle routine I would be a happy man!

How are you coming into the effect? How are you getting out?

Be natural and use your head.

Comedy born of bewilderment is the only comedy that should be in magic.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

Don't forget to give Neville our love!' Ginny told James as she hugge

I'm really quite simple. I plant flowers and watch them grow... I stay at home and watch the river flow.

It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone's malignity.

I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.

I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.

At length I recollected the thoughtless saying of a great princess, who, on being informed that the country people had no bread, replied, "Let them eat cake".

No soldier can fight unless he is properly fed on beef and beer.

Dad, because you are my father it's been easy to believe in God.

Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.