“Dung is more valuable than any precious metal. You cannot grow food in gold.”

I’m not a magician. I’am an alchemyst, a man of science, though perhaps not the science you would be familiar with.

Good or bad is a matter of perspective.

Master the rules of the game until you can play it better they can.

We only ever regret the things we have not done.

When in doubt, we follow our hearts. Words can be false, images and sounds can be manipulated. But this – He tapped his chest, over his heart. ‘This is always true.

The truth is a double-edged sword; it is a dangerous thing.

I… Declare…. Bankruptcy!

I… Declare…. Bankruptcy!

Every story starts with an idea, but it is the characters that move this idea forward.

Once you have been touched by magic, you are forever changed. You leave a trail.

I am not afraid to die because I know that when we go, we will go together. It is living without you that would be unbearable.

He who retreats lives longer.

What is the point in living forever, if it is not with the woman I love?

We do not always get what we want. Sometimes life presents us with surprises.

What you call magic is nothing more than an act of the imagination fired by the senses, then given shape by the power of your aura.

The Egyptians got it wrong. They wrapped the dead. They did not realize I wrapped the living.

Good food is a celebration of life.

Now, occasionally I will still have that quarter pounder because I love fast food, but you have to keep it to a minimum.

Women are the centre of the family. It’s the woman who decides what’s eaten in the house, when to have the kids vaccinated; everything that has to do with the children’s health revolves around her.

We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.

Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.

If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.

There is a big confusion in this country over what we want verses what we need you need food. You want a chocolate sundae.

You look at me like supper, and I just want to be your last one this time.