A good magic effect should easily be described in one sentence.

In magic, today as always, the effect is what counts. The method or methods used are always purely secondary.

What the eyes see, the heart must believe.

Most magicians consider the palm an easy move to make. They are inclined to believe that they are 'getting away with it,' when they are in fact fortunate enough to have a polite audience.

Don't make unimportant things important

The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.

A large movement covers a small movement

If I could climax as many times as a Derek Dingle routine I would be a happy man!

How are you coming into the effect? How are you getting out?

Be natural and use your head.

Comedy born of bewilderment is the only comedy that should be in magic.

Coach Godsey is a brilliant mind, a great teacher, and it's been fun learning from him so far.

The point of my work is to make it clear that all youth can make 'big miracles' happen.

I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.

I wake up to start dreaming.

If you want to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you and what people think of you.

The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose.

A lot of folks that ain't saying 'ain't,' ain't eating.

There is no limit to stupidity. - Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.

Little is really known of the actual potentials of human functioning.

Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.