To me, it's never about the trick. I don't care about how something works. I care about how people feel when they watch it. You know, that - that connection - that emotional connection is true magic.

What you see is what you get.

It's so funny looking back, but my so-called overnight success actually took 15 years. I remember when I didn't have any money, and my only car was mom's Hyundai.

Magic speaks to the child in all of us. No matter how sophisticated we become, there's still a part of us who wants to believe in an alternative reality, where we can defy the laws of nature.

Reality is perspective. All you have to do is Believe.

Pain is a beautiful thing. When you feel pain, you know you're alive.

When you think like a child your imagination is free and anything is possible.

I am the Mindfreak, there's no Reality! Just this World of Illusion that keeps on haunting me.

I'm a workaholic. I work and work and work.

When the mind, body, and spirit work together, I believe anything is possible.

I am a street performer as much as I am a stage performer. Yes, I have a television show, but every trick, every 'Mindfreak' you see, I can do live.

The best is to do injustice without paying the penalty

I tried to become a hawk, it didn't work. I think I got -stuck

World War II synchronizes things for a lot of people. There's a kind of wakeup call.

We are to find God in what we know, not in what we don't know.

Why should the peculiarities of human consciousness be the narrow standard by which other creatures are judged?

To place any dependence upon militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff.

There's no "right way" to garden, only what suits each person and place.

You train your man to do nothing.

Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win - preferably a knight rather than a king or queen.

Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are.