Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science.

On no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great stage of history when once the hour strikes.

To blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also there.

Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.

There are times when reality becomes too complex for oral communication. But legend gives it a form by which it pervades the whole world.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

A miracle entails a degree of irrationality—not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.

Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?

Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.