Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asana each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach.

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.

Man created religion in order to avoid god.

Impatience can teach us the lessons of patience better

The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish.

I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired.

What I like about eyewear is that it can work with a lot of different looks. You can wear it with a Balenciaga dress, or something that is straight and very quirky.

Sometimes the briefest moments capture us, force us to take them in, and demand that we live the rest of our lives in reference to them.

If you knew my wife, you'd be like, "Yeah, you're very married." She runs the household. I refer to her as "the greatest director I've ever worked with."

You have so many miles and so many years to reach the stars; if you ignore this, you can reach over there!

When we forgive someone, the knots are untied and the past is released.

The major way to conquer fear is to make a decision.