...there is a fine line between wishing to produce child-like astonishment and treating people like infants.

We're terrible at realising what goes on in other people's heads because we are trapped inside our own.

Have your cake and eat it... there's no other reason to have a cake

I control the conditions so my testers become my testees.

The single most valuable human trait, the one quality every schoolchild and adult should be taught to nurture, is, quite simply, kindness.

To impress people as much as we would wish, we would first need to successfully adopt each of their value systems

The desire to impress is an efficient means of bringing out one’s least impressive qualities.

We forget our health and comfort and notice a pinching shoe. Much of living well is detaching from our boring stories of pain and shifting focus

Magic is a performance, and a performance should have an honesty, a relevance and a resonance if it is to be offered to spectators without insulting them.

I am often dishonest in my techniques ... I happily admit to cheating, it's all part of the game. I hope some of the fun for the viewer comes from not knowing what's real and what isn't

Dull magic is a collection of tricks: great magic should sting.

These songs tell me I'm not alone. If you look at it that way, music...music can see you through anything.

Patriotism is dangerous, but kindness is always kind.

It is proved...that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose.

Nature with equal mind sees all her sons at play sees man control the wind the wind sweep man away.

When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of success. So, it's a difficult task.

I don't like to watch golf on television because I can't stand people who whisper.

NO, I will not accept straight edge into my life!

Problems are challenges to creative minds. Without problems, there would be little reason to think at all.

Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it.

Someday, you need to build a business that's difficult to replicate. This is an important part of a good idea.