I came into this world restless despite many appearances to the contrary. Does that make me unique? I doubt it.

Do yoga in order to know what to do when you're not doing yoga.

Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker, and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened, then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion and a genuine desire to serve others.

There is no doubt that the foundation of being a great yoga teacher is being a great yoga student.

We are already complete. All we need is the clarity to recognize the wholeness that is us.

The quality of your practice is ultimately measured by its effect on the quality of your life. In other words, mastery in yoga is mastery of life.

If you make time for silence, the sacred will unfold.

Stop trying to distinguish the joy of meditation from the messiness of life. Begin to see the divine in everything. She is in the joy just as much as the misery.

In the end, yoga has less to do with what you can do with your body and more to do with the happiness that unfolds from realizing your full potential.

From a yogic perspective, stillness, coupled with expanded awareness, is by far the most powerful medium by which you can affect your destiny.

Desire, instead of being an obstacle to an inspired and fulfilled life, is the very thing that propels you toward it.

One has to be dull to feel happy amongst the dull!

This was sharing office space with wacko and bordering on ludicrous.

Never stop. One always stops as soon as something is about to happen.

The trouble with getting introspective when you're pregnant is that you never know who you might run into.

Violent excitement exhausts the mind and leaves it withered and sterile.

Pay attention to what you're passionate about when no one is paying you.

NCLB should be called "More Children Left behind".

I never feel more alive than when I'm on stage. On film you feel chopped up, you can be acting from the neck up, or the hand, there is a lot of close up.

I will only make pictures that I won't be ashamed to have my children see.

I am also committed to providing city employees with housing assistance.