Use video to train assistants you'll be surprised how quickly they learn.

Some of the best ideas I've gotten for my act have come from comedians and not magicians.

Pay attention to your visual themes.

Read about the history of magic.

Spare no expense on the stuff that matters.

Dwelling on the sins of the past won't help us stop the evils of the present.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Nature is a catchment of sorrows.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

I try to give positive energy in all my shows.

I'm a work in progress.

Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.

I listen to a lot of different kinds of music.

Half of the energy is used by one seventh of the world's population.

I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper.

The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.