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

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.

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'.

Before there can be wonders, there must be wonder.

Wisdom is the God-given ability to see life with rare objectivity and to handle life with rare stability.

Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father's house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining.

I think the Women's movement has had a major impact on everybody's lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.

Lou Grant was pretty much always Lou Grant

You always be like, I hope I'm ready.

If you were your own employer, would you be entirely satisfied with the day’s work you have done today?

I'm the type that makes attempt after attempt and moves forward like a wild horse.

The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax

It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances.

There's nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with encores.