Am I becoming the kind of person I would like to have as a friend?

The world doesn't really need more people who can bend their bodies into amazing positions. What it needs are kinder, more compassionate, generous people.

When we bring our mind into our body, the body becomes mindful, and the mind becomes embodied

Slowing down is the precursor to Yoga practice because this simple act allows us to consider our thoughts, feelings and actions more carefully in the light of our desire to live peacefully.

Yoga is a technology for arriving in this present moment. It is a means of waking up from our spiritual amnesia, so that we can remember all that we already know.

The asanas are useful maps to explore yourself, but they are not the territory.

The process of breathing is the most accurate metaphor we have for the way that we personally approach life, how we live our lives, and how we react to the inevitable changes that life brings us.

When we feel connected to the vastness of life and are confident of life's abundance, we are naturally generous and able to practice the third yama, non-stealing (asteya).

Life is not inherently meaningful. We make meaning happen through the attention and care we express through our actions.

In truth it matters less what we do... than how we do it and why.

Through daily yoga practice we can become present to our own fundamental goodness and the goodness of others

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

... To be in time means to change.

For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth.

Nothing is possible without love ... For love puts one in a mood to risk everything.

Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy.

Women know no perfect love: Loving the strong, they can forsake the strong; Man clings because the being whom he loves Is weak and needs him.

I don't really have a New Year's resolution to go on a diet or anything like that. I am who I am, and I don't want to be somebody else.

When I was a child... I was watching a snowstorm, and hopefully asked, 'Momma, do we believe in winter?'

Music is your own talent and is an important tool. Even if you dont want to be a role model, get ready to be in the public eye. Energy is there, you just have to use it.

I have started smiling! I've mastered this smirk; it's a smile that isn't a smile.