There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

I've been on enough sports teams in my life to have experienced the magic of what can happen when a group of people care for and love each other.

Acting is a sense of wonder and magic and mystery for me and when life takes me on a new journey I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.

Weapons of mass destruction aren't pulled out of a black hat like a white rabbit at a magic show. They're produced in factories. There's science and technology involved. They're not produced in a hole in the ground or in a basement.

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

This world after all our science and sciences is still a miracle wonderful inscrutable magical and more to whosoever will think of it.

Shooting a film is like a kismet quest. You have thirty days and you need magic to happen. So that's why I wear suits. I'm praying to the gods and I'm doing everything I can to respect the powers of the world.

In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.

I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that throughout the ages has blended superstition trickery and religion.