Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.

I was a peaceful sedentary man, a lover of a quiet life, with no appetite for perils and commotions. But I was beginning to realise that I was very obstinate.

John Buchan

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wealth acquired by vanity shall be diminished; but he that gathers it by labor shall increase.

Bible

All the same, we ought to point out that if the kinds of poetry and representation which are designed merely to give pleasure can come up with a rational argument for their inclusion in a well-governed community, we'd be delighted -- short of compromising the truth as we see it, which wouldn't be right -- to bring them back from exile: after all, we know from our own experience all about their spell. I mean haven't ever fallen under the spell of poetry, Glaucon, especially when the spectacle is provided by Homer?

Plato

There's nothing like starting the day with a healthy, filling breakfast smoothie.

Hannah Bronfman

Light is the symbol of truth.

James Russell Lowell

I've been able to go on and have a successful career on Broadway and certainly the last five years in Las Vegas have been amazing.

David Cassidy

Art is my life and my life is art.

Yoko Ono

All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.

James Joyce

Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely nearsighted gaze.

Garrison Keillor

Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.

Albert Camus

Integrity is not a 90 percent thing, not a 95 percent thing; either you have it or you don't.

Peter Scotese