You get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right.

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.

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.

Every time something really bad happens, people cry out for safety, and the government answers by taking rights away from good people

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

I think backwards. "This was beautiful." Instead of forward.

We don't really make friends, they make us.

To be at peace in any endeavour, we must release our need to control the outcome.

He had known the love that is fed on caresses and feeds them; but this passion that was closer than his bones was not to be superficially satisfied.

Because a woman brought death a bright Maiden overcame it, and so the highest blessing in all of creation lies in the form of a woman, since God has become man in a sweet and blessed Virgin.

I just take one day at a time, pray, and know that whatever happens is God's will, so there's nothing I can do to change that.

Churches that depart from the Word will soon find that God has departed from them.

I run because it's my passion, and not just a sport.

Winners see the gain; losers see the pain.