I control the conditions so my testers become my testees.

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

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.

To invest your time is to convert it into some products that could benefit humanity.

I can see the cracks in society, in people, in this world and I'd rather die before slipping into one of them.

I think people need to know that there's great peace and joy in knowing the Lord - the Lord Jesus Christ - as your savior.

No" is a complete sentence.

I seem to be able to disassociate my insecurities. I know a lot of actors - some of the best actors in the world - can't bear to watch themselves and I have to say I can't relate to that.

For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.

The soul maintains it's deathly sleep and the heart bleeds from a thousand wounds

Don't forget how you got here. Don't Forget.

I've always been a keen cyclist, I'm very close to the world of cycling. Not just cycling really - also walking, adventures, being a curious person, traveling to new countries.

Environmentalists and clean energy champions should stop telling people that we are working for "sustainability," which nobody understands.