To impress people as much as we would wish, we would first need to successfully adopt each of their value systems

We're terrible at realising what goes on in other people's heads because we are trapped inside our own.

Have your cake and eat it... there's no other reason to have a cake

I control the conditions so my testers become my testees.

The single most valuable human trait, the one quality every schoolchild and adult should be taught to nurture, is, quite simply, kindness.

...there is a fine line between wishing to produce child-like astonishment and treating people like infants.

The desire to impress is an efficient means of bringing out one’s least impressive qualities.

We forget our health and comfort and notice a pinching shoe. Much of living well is detaching from our boring stories of pain and shifting focus

Magic is a performance, and a performance should have an honesty, a relevance and a resonance if it is to be offered to spectators without insulting them.

I am often dishonest in my techniques ... I happily admit to cheating, it's all part of the game. I hope some of the fun for the viewer comes from not knowing what's real and what isn't

Dull magic is a collection of tricks: great magic should sting.

Your boyfriend smells bad, says Sarah as she sniffs the armpit of the giant sweatshirt.All boys smell bad I say and she nods her head like we have just figured out something very important.

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body the two are ever united.

I realized if you can change a classroom, you can change a community, and if you change enough communities you can change the world.

Decisions just look different with women at the table. We still have a long way to go. The most powerful thing we own is our vote.

Oh confound that gray-and-scarlet suit!" Sophie said. "I refuse to believe that I was the one that got caught with it!

Creativity helps us realize that we don't have to understand everything. We can enjoy something -feel it and use it- without ever fully comprehending it.

You don't buy luxury to enter a community, but to set yourself apart from others.

Love has the face of a goddess, but the talons of a lion.

Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me.

A true friend is the gift of God, and He only who made hearts can unite them.