If I don't fool you, I'm not doing my job as a magician. If I make you feel foolish, I'm not doing my job as a human being.

Magic is something that seems like it goes against how the world works and its us magicians job to be doing that.

We see things based on autopilot. Our mind identifies something in a certain way, no matter what the eye sees. The eye tells you one thing and the brain tells you another.

In the fleeting light she saw the meadow, dotted with stunted hawthorns, their twisted limbs dense with red berries, and then a shape: achingly familiar, child-sized, shockingly still.

We think we have got freedom of the press. When one millionaire has ten newspapers and ten million people have no newspapers - that is not freedom of the press.

Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.

It's the connection between schools and communities that creates greatness in schools.

...forgiving is not the same as forgetting.

I closed my eyes, thinking, Let me love you, Hardy, just let me.

The photographer must be absorbent - like a blotter, allow himself to be permeated by the poetic moment... His technique should be like an animal function... he should act automatically.

Although it was a great accomplishment to win a gold medal, as soon as they put it on you, that's it; your career is over.

You never walk out of the gym and say, 'I shouldn't have gone.

Who do you think's better looking people in the north or people in the south?