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'm comfortable and confident about the future.

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.

Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today.

You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.

It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.

The media cause more problems than they do good.

Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.

I'm not doing my philanthropic work out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it.

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

I am comfortable with myself, and this is how I am. I am not really interested in having an acrimonious fight with somebody.

It turns out Cuba has this incredible healthcare system for a very poor country.

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.