"Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement"

"Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy"

"I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers"

"Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace"

"The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older"

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"

"Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen"

"Digital media has destroyed much of the magic and mystery of the medium"

"All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books"

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

"Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment"