When you see me do a five-minute thing, there's been about two years of preparation behind that. You know, I find that's what it takes to really make it the level of quality I prefer.

I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

the sight of me is good for sore eyes

When people say you can't do it - that it's impossible - never lose hope. Just because they couldn't doesn't mean you can't.

The real secret of magic lies in the performance.

It wasn't just about doing tricks. It's about taking an audience to another place, a special place, so they can really suspend their disbelief. Its about amazing the audience as well as moving them.

I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear.

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

The most important thing is presentation.

Stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will'.

Angry men have little to live for when their rage becomes ineffective.

Why am I doing this? Because it feels so good to talk like we used to, even though I know this is just a shadow of what we had. But I chase it anyway.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

You got to take the crookeds with the straights. That's what Papa used to say.

Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

I don't think anybody in the game over the last several years has made more plays than Richard Sherman.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

For the gods, instead of what is most pleasing, will give what is most proper. Man is dearer to them than he is to himself.

I saw my father march with Martin Luther King.

Plants seem like an excellent model for the kind of future that we should be building.