Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.

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.

If you never understand my silence, you will never understand my words.

I couldn't reach him from here even if I tried.

I'd start a business again in a heartbeat. Indeed, I hope that one day I may get the chance to do so when my mission here in Washington, D.C. is complete.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.

My kids are so much better parent than I was.

Bette Davis taught Hollywood to follow an actress instead of the actress following the camera, and she's probably the best movie actress there's ever been.

Take my last best advice: Try everything twice!

Trust in God, that's where the crown is at. It's not in what you get, it's what happens after that.

Listen to everything all the time and remind yourself when you are not listening.