If we do destroy most life on this planet, science says it won't be the first time.

Yoga doesn't ask you to be more than you are. But it does ask you to be all that you are.

When you're experiencing what's happening right now, all of a sudden everything that happened to you in your entire life melts away.

Fall with awareness and acceptance.

It doesn't matter what it looks like; it matters what it feels like.

Yoga doesn't want to change you - it wants to take care of you.

I need to somehow peel away the dullness and heighten my sensitivity and alertness. I need to start sucking the juice out of every single moment of the most precious gift ever to be had, "my life!"

Everything becomes an opportunity to evolve and grow.

Welcome to your body.

Be gentle with everything in your life.

Because we are not separate and we are a strand in the web of this existence, there is nothing about us - which includes who we are and what we do - that is not happening perfectly.

You got to go down a lot of wrong roads to find the right one.

Books … they’re kind of a compulsion for me. To find a great bookstore is a great thing.

Simplicity, it seems, has always been wasted on those who simply cannot appreciate it

Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.

Great rivalries don't have to be built on hatred. They're built on respect, on a respect for excellence.

When I got a record deal I said, 'I'm only wearing jeans. I'm not wearing frilly dresses.' Dancing around in sequins is just not who I am. I wanted to be heard, not seen.

There are two things John and I always do when we're going to sit down and write a song. First of all we sit down. Then we think about writing a song.

Political genius consists in identifying oneself with a principle.

People are not going to reelect Barack Obama. But will the new president govern as a real conservative? We're going to have to apply the heat to make sure.

Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.