When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Lydia M. Child

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

Edmund Burke

People fall forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

In a sense, it (Christianity) creates rather than solves the problem of pain, for pain would be no problem unless side by side with our daily experience of this painful world, we had received what we think a good assurance that ultimate reality is ri

C.S. Lewis

History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.

Irving Langmuir

The following general definition of an animal: a system of different organic molecules that have combined with one another, under the impulsion of a sensation similar to an obtuse and muffled sense of touch given to them by the creator of matter as a whole, until each one of them has found the most suitable position for its shape and comfort.

Denis Diderot

Hold love like a butterfly, with gentle preservation. Hold life like the reigns of a wild stallion, with fierce assertion. Encompass that, and you find the nectar of the immortal spirit.

Kellie Elmore

It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland when we are about to lose it.

Albert Camus

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

George Bernard Shaw

The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest.

Anais Nin

Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.

Vince Lombardi

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

Norman Vincent Peale