I control the conditions so my testers become my testees.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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