I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.

No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth.

It is needless to say that women make the most patient as well as the most dangerous pickpockets.

I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.

But it must not be thought that I say this out of personal experience: for in the many years that I have been before the public my secret methods have been steadily shielded by the strict integrity of my assistants, most of whom have been with me for years.

My Brain is the key that sets me free.

The secret of showmanship consists not of what you really do, but what the mystery-loving public thinks you do.