I discovered that magic tricks got me more attention from the girls in my class when I was nine - so a magician was born!

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'.

Mice: But reading all the good writers might discourage you.Y.C.: Then you ought to be discouraged.

Her eyes flashed, hot and angry, like lightening cutting through a red sunset.

You can always be a better person, a better version of you, focus on that you do that makes you feel good, cultivateactivities that make you feel in peaceand make them part of your daily life.

Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.

The longer the road to love, the keener is the pleasure...

You are not fully dressed until you wear a smile.

He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.

I am reminded of the importance of small kindnesses.

I always have beauty around me, for I have but to go to my piano, and trace one of the million designs that have been made by my masters.

There is only one way of attaining liberation and of obtaining the omniscience of enlightenment: following an authentic spiritual master.