As we shave it happens that we cut ourself with the razor blade; this does not mean that we must not shave in the morning any longer. It is the same thing for yoga.

The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.

Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.

Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.

Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.

Life without tapas, is like a heart without love.

The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It's about using posture to understand and transform yourself.

In backbends, one touches the body physically, mentally, intellectually, consciously and spiritually everywhere.

In an asana, the mind has to reach inside the body to find a quiet space until a point comes where perfect balance is felt.

Knowledge has a beginning but no end.

The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.

To live only for pleasure is to die while living.

The secret to my success is actually simple: I failed so many times that succeeding eventually became a mathematical certainty.

Wonder is a beautiful bliss.

Who am I? And how, I wonder, will this story end?

I may have one more 'Star Trek' novel in me, but it would be in the old universe, not the new one.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

But still, like air, I'll rise

A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy.

If you've only one breath left, use it to say thank you.

He who has suffered shipwreck, fears to sail Upon the seas, though with a gentle gale.