I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.

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.

But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.

A state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens.

The childish urge to understand everything doesn't necessarily fade when the time approaches for you to do the most adult thing of all: vanish.

I am the laziest man in the world. I invented all those things to save myself from toil.

Hitting at the top of the order is a good thing. You get more at-bats. I'm excited to see how this develops.

When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.

Only by taking Jesus' example into every part of our lives will we be able to win in life.

To reject the necessity of temples is to reject the necessity of God, religion and earthly existence.

I've never used one word of profanity in front of my wife, or my daughter, or my granddaughter or anybody else's wife.

The cross [is] the ultimate statement of God's involvement in the world on this side of heaven.