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

A lot of unconfident kids do tricks because it's the quickest route to impressing people," he explains. "You can stand behind something amazing and people think you're amazing.

There are things in your life which you are in control of, and those you're not. You need to not care about those things which you're not in control of, and when you come to really understand that, you can go from being really upset about something to that lovely feeling of being a kid where everything is okay.

Few kids seek to learn a skill specifically designed to impress people unless they feel less than impressive themselves.

Magic is not inherently anything. It is what you sell it as.

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

Our fascination with weather: its caprices and changes as an antidote to the eternal repetition of daily life; a helpful illusion of novelty