If you work on yoga, yoga will work on you.

By running away from the world no one can get peace. Anywhere you go the problems will go with you, because the problems are inside you and not outside. Outside is simply a projection of inside.

No one can please everyone. Your mental peace is more important. If you are in peace, then others around you will feel peace. So your best effort should be to work on yourself.

The world is not a burden; we make it a burden by our desires. When the desires are removed, the world is as light as a feather on an elephant's back.

Work honestly, meditate everyday, meet people without fear and play.

The body is a boat that carries the soul in the ocean of the world. If it is not strong, or it has a hole, then it cannot cross the ocean, so the first duty is to fix the boat.

Children copy their parents, friends, and teachers. They will develop the habits of the people around them. So if you want your child to be honest, peaceful and happy you should be that way first.

As soon as a person starts thinking, 'I want to be a better person,' that is the start of Yoga.

Love everyone, including yourself. This is real sadhana.

Life is not a burden, but we make it one when we refuse to accept things as they are.

You can't teach a hunter it's wrong to kill.

There is nothing wrongwith enjoying life’s luxuriesas long as your happinessisn’t contingent on them.

I would sooner read five lines of the Bible than hear five masses in the "Church".

But when one masters this wretched desire, which is so hard to overcome, then one's sorrows just drop off, like a drop of water off a lotus.

I had sold my soul for pleasure.

You're as good as anybody.

Success is the potential destiny of all created things

For the size of it, a check book is about the greatest convenience I know of.

To be compared to Will Smith is probably one of the coolest things because that's who I came up admiring.

When I make a bad play, it frustrates the heck out of me, even in practice.

My beautiful wife is dead. She meant everything to me. Her laughter, her tears and her joy will remain with me the rest of my life.