In backbends, one touches the body physically, mentally, intellectually, consciously and spiritually everywhere.

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 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.

Whenever we find stiffness in the body, our mind should be especially supple. It is never the stiffness in our bodies that limits our practice, it is always the stiffness of our mind.

I think the rest of the world is not as cold and lonely a place as you think. At least I have to hope.

Men don't get cellulite. God might just be a man.

Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.

In terms of fast food and deep understanding of the culture of fast food, I'm your man.

All the doors that I had to close. All the things I knew but I didn't know. Thank God for all I missed. 'Cause it led me here to this.

I think a lot of us are increasingly recognizing that the dominant culture is killing the planet.

I never translated from my days in the Navy to being a congressman.

I feel sometimes like a book tour is a slow series of humiliations and that if you're strong you'll come out of it OK.

You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.

On this path let the heart be your guide.