There is no reason for the government to limit political speech.

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.

If you don’t convert your time into products, you will regret it. If you don’t multiply your life, you will soon find out that your life is almost finished with nothing to show for it.

Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on.

The light needs only our trustAnd, of course, the darknessTo work its eternal alchemy.

Stay positive. Sometimes you don't even realize you're blocking your own blessings by thinking negatively and holding on to the past. Learn to let go.

If the whole world went vegan, there would be less war. How you eat determines your mood and your outlook on life.

Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.

The key to long-term survival and prosperity has a lot to do with the money management techniques incorporated into the technical system.

I like time off because I also have a life outside of theater.

There's more magic in a baby's first giggle than in any firestorm a wizard can conjure up, and don't let anyone tell you any different.

I would say that working with Ridley Scott makes the process of directing much more terrifying.