If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.

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.

Maybe it’s NOT Maybelline. Maybe you were just born with it.

When passion blends with profession it turns into a masterpiece...

I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young. I get very concerned when people talk about cutting education budgets.

If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed.

Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.

There's been shock waves sent throughout all parts of the nation's economic fabric.

Both art and the artist lack identity and define themselves only through their encounter with each other.

The best way to avoid warfare is if no one shows up.

The like is not the friend of the like in as far as he is like; still the good may be the friend of the good in as far as he is good.

Let God fling you out (as seed), and do not go until He does. If you select your own spot, you will prove an empty pod. If God sows you, you will bring forth fruit.