Houdini

It is better to be a good escape artist than a poor magician.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

I have escaped from more jails than any man alive.

Death is the greatest mystery of all, and I intend to solve it.

My mind is my strongest muscle.

I can escape from anything except my own reputation.

The public is my only judge; I care not for the opinions of magicians.

I have cheated death many times, but death will cheat me in the end.

A magician is just an actor playing the part of a magician.

I have been buried alive and lived to tell about it—but just barely.

The hand is quicker than the eye only when the eye is not paying attention.

I would walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play before a paying audience.

Fear is the real prison.

The human mind is a wonderful thing. It can make you believe anything.

If God in his infinite wisdom ever sent an angel upon earth in human form, it was my mother.