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

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

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

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

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.

I don't go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack.

Unity is the most important thing on the road to stamping out terror. You need global rules of law and order, and they have to be enforced. Start with that principle.

For me, the strength of photography lies in its ability to evoke humanity. If war is an attempt to negate humanity, then photography can be perceived as the opposite of war.

I used to think that prayer should have the first place and teaching the second. I now feel that it would be truer to give prayer the first, second and third place, and teaching the fourth.

I like a lot of wheels. If I could have eight wheels, I would.

Bigger budget features are the juice. Delicious juice you want to spill all over yourself.

Getting old we can deal with. Being old is the problem

The highest form of love is the love that allows for intimacy without the annihilation of difference.

You're not a failure if you don't make it. You're a success because you tried.

Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day