Penn & Teller stopped doing practical jokes, and the reason is we got much too good at it.

One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality.

Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.

You get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right.

Atheism is the absence of religion. We don’t really need atheism. We just need to get rid of religion.

If you are doing something for reward or punishment, you do not have morality.

In music, if you hit a wrong note, people forgive you. In magic when something goes wrong, the entire art is destroyed.

I think voting for the lesser of two evils in game theory always leads to more evil.

Much better than the feeling of having things is the feeling of having earned things.

Better to be uneducated than educated by your government.

Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality.

I've looked at life from both sides now From up and down and still somehowIt's life's illusions I recallI really don't know life at all

We would not be who we are today if it had not been for the lives that we have lived.

Stay away from people who gossip and spread rumors. They are choosing the path of emotional bullying and negativity.

Racism is a physical experience.

Delicacy is to love what grace is to beauty.

Compassion is a two way street.

For 30 years I have tried to make it understood that there are no criminals.

By unseen hands uplifted in the light Of sunset, yonder solitary cloud Floats, with its white apparel blown abroad, And wafted up to heaven.

I mean, I can't say that I've had many deep thoughts because I traveled alone, but it's good to be with myself in the quiet.

Character is victory organized.