Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.

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.

Let no feeling of discouragement preyupon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

And if the characters haven't died, they carry on murdering to this very day ...

Three women walk into a pub and say, 'Hooray, we've colonised a male-dominated joke format'

We turn now over the debate of the proposed Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero....The controversy has raised profound questions about religious tolerance and prejudice in the United States.

It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delivered.

I want to be the best in whatever I do.

A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.

Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes made of ticky-tacky, Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes all the same.

Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.

Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound.