Asanas keep your body, as well as your mind, healthy and active

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.

Penguins don't waste their time trying to fly. They’re unique. They know they were built for the water.

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.

Ah, lady, when I gave my heart to thee, It passed into thy lifelong regency.

We must start... rebuilding our cities around energy efficiency and human needs, rather than around the car and wasted energy.

If you go into the eastern bloc countries we are huge, and in Russia. Maybe there is something about the depressing nature of our music and lyrics that some people find an affinity with.

If a man knows he will sooner or later be robbed upon a journey, he will have a bottle of the best in every inn, and look upon all his extravagances as so much gained upon the thieves.

If you turn your back on a customer, you turn your back on success.

It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write.

Work hard. Come early, stay late. That's the way leadership has to approach it.