Before there can be wonders, there must be wonder.

I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

the sight of me is good for sore eyes

When people say you can't do it - that it's impossible - never lose hope. Just because they couldn't doesn't mean you can't.

The real secret of magic lies in the performance.

It wasn't just about doing tricks. It's about taking an audience to another place, a special place, so they can really suspend their disbelief. Its about amazing the audience as well as moving them.

I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear.

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

The most important thing is presentation.

Stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will'.

In truth, I doubt I'd notice if a herd of giant Irish elk stomped through the entire chamber when I'm in the act of lovin' you, Lainna!

Our most challenging and painful experiences become our credentials for helping people.

Knowledge is the life of the mind.

There is nothing fatherly about time and what it does to us, either.

The only thing that isn't worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly, And be patience with those who don't.

People forget that there is a big difference between coercion and persuasion. The idea that evangelism is coercive is nonsense.

Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and the Church.

Golf is a game in which you yell "for," shoot six, and write down five.

The man who is going through with God to be used in healing must be a man of longsuffering.

I’ve been here before, dreaming myself backwards, among grappling hooks of light. True to the seasons, I’ve lived every word spoken. Did I walk into someone’s nightmare?