Keep up your enthusiasm! There is nothing more contagious than exuberant enthusiasm.

The great day of the Fire-eater - or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater - has passed.

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

Some say I do it this way, others say I do it that way, but I say I do it the other way.

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

I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary.

I must fling myself down and writhe; I must strive with every piece of force I possess; I bruise and batter myself against the floor, the walls; I strain and sob and exhaust myself, and begin again, and exhaust myself again; but do I feel pain? Never. How can I feel pain? There is no place for it.