The more educated you get, the better shot you have to get it right, but if you're really trying something different, it's a challenge every time.

I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

the sight of me is good for sore eyes

When people say you can't do it - that it's impossible - never lose hope. Just because they couldn't doesn't mean you can't.

The real secret of magic lies in the performance.

It wasn't just about doing tricks. It's about taking an audience to another place, a special place, so they can really suspend their disbelief. Its about amazing the audience as well as moving them.

I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear.

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

The most important thing is presentation.

Stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will'.

Nature is so powerful, so strong. It takes you to a place within yourself.

And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to father time.

I don't know. I'd be a lot better off if I would've studied more when I was growing up, you know?

Hillary Clinton wouldn't have make a joke about wiping the server clean with a towel or now we find out about bashing old Blackberries to get rid of them or the fact that she had 13 Blackberries.

Do what you want to do, and go where you're going to. Think for yourself, 'Cause I won't be there with you.

Marriage is the only thing that affords a woman the pleasure of company and the perfect sensation of solitude at the same time.

I think that our own crisis of democracy is in its own way affecting our ability to leverage in the same way that we used to in the world.

When you forgive, you must cancel the debt. Do not spend your life paying and collecting debts.

If you have too much to do, with God's help you will find time to do it all.

The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.