"Magic is 10% secrets and 90% presentation. Mentalism is 5% secrets and 95% presentation."

“If readers must puzzle over unfamiliar or ambiguous words, you are making them work harder than they need to.”

“All citizens including women are equally admissible to all public dignities, offices, and employments, according to their capacity, and with no other distinction than that of their virtues and talents.”

“It's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is part of being alive, something we all share.”

“U.S. Constitution is under attack from Fundamentalist Islam and shari'a.”

“I don't want the stage. I'm terrified of giving these talking heads some distraction, some excuse to jeopardize, smear, and delegitimize a very important movement.”

“So the question really is, Why doesn't that pain make you say, I won't do it again? When the pain is so bad that you have to say that, but you don't.”

“[I]f you are truly a man, sure of yourself and confident of your strength, you may taste of life without fear and without reserve; you may be sad or joyous, deceived or respected; but be sure you are loved, for what matters the rest?”

Source : Alfred de Musset, Paul de Musset (1908). “The confession of a child of the century tr. by Kendall Warren”

“I broke every barrier I could to see things as they are.”