Cultivate a sympathetic heart, humility in dealings, and selflessness in action. If these are practiced with earnestness and sincerity, then you will win the race of life.

If you work on yoga, yoga will work on you.

By running away from the world no one can get peace. Anywhere you go the problems will go with you, because the problems are inside you and not outside. Outside is simply a projection of inside.

No one can please everyone. Your mental peace is more important. If you are in peace, then others around you will feel peace. So your best effort should be to work on yourself.

The world is not a burden; we make it a burden by our desires. When the desires are removed, the world is as light as a feather on an elephant's back.

Work honestly, meditate everyday, meet people without fear and play.

The body is a boat that carries the soul in the ocean of the world. If it is not strong, or it has a hole, then it cannot cross the ocean, so the first duty is to fix the boat.

Children copy their parents, friends, and teachers. They will develop the habits of the people around them. So if you want your child to be honest, peaceful and happy you should be that way first.

As soon as a person starts thinking, 'I want to be a better person,' that is the start of Yoga.

Love everyone, including yourself. This is real sadhana.

Life is not a burden, but we make it one when we refuse to accept things as they are.

Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.

Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an Ego that denies.

Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.

I would say invisibility would be sort of a fun power to have just to see what it was like to move through the world and not be looked at.

The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight.

At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and quiet.

Here lay the political genius of Franklin Roosevelt: that in his own time he knew what were the questions that had to be answered, even though he himself did not always find the full answer.

L.A. is nothing but a bunch of driving, and I hate all that damn driving 'cause it interferes with my drinking.

When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.

Marriage indeed may qualify the fury of his passion, but it very rarely mends a man's manners.