I'm comfortable and confident about the future.

Perform as many times as you can in front of people you don't know.

When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.

Harry Collins was the first magician I ever saw back in 1965 when I was five years old. He was doing a magic show and I was the volunteer from the audience.

It's new and different every night. The charge you get from a good audience is like nothing else.

One of the funniest lines in my show was written for me by Alan Bursky. I really want to learn this routine!

I have no idea what's next, I simply don't have a clue.

I am very impressed by the thinking that went into The Clarity Box. David Regal is diabolical.

I'm very happy to be employed. I always contend that in show business that if you're employed, then you're successful.

That's kind of what we have here. I think we've just grown apart, we have different philosophies, and we're going in different directions.

Hope is strong trust in divine power.

When you have defined yourself, circumstances don’t define you – they only refine you.

Observe the behavior of your environment carefully for clues as to what is acceptable and rewarded.

Every cabinet minister gets a mission statement from the Prime Minister.

Unhappily the habit of being offensive 'without meaning it' leads usually to a way of making amends which the injured person cannot but regard as a being amiable without meaning it.

The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a fool, the artist an escapist, the man of vision a criminal.

What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.

In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.

As human beings, we always expect everyday change to happen slowly and steadily, and for there to be some relationship between cause and effect.

Your significance is not in your similarity to another - it is in your point of difference.