If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.

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.

The most important thing I came to tell you is that I want your oath that you will keep an open mind...about everything that may seem impossible.

A good belly laugh is like taking your liver for a horseback ride.

If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.

One of us in this very room is in fact the murderer.

Nothing teaches character better than generosity.

People can call you many different things, but you are not what people call you. You are what you answer to.

Botany, the eldest daughter of medicine.

...the air seeming to gather around her like held breath. As if this whole place were a story about her.

Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating.

The soul is like a pair of winged horses and a charioteer joined in natural union.