In forward bends, one uses the outer mind while in backbends the outer mind is silenced and the inner mind is made to work.

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.

Praying leads to the prosperity of the soul

Do you have regrets that we were so overwhelmed? Do you ever wish to live those hours over again and differently, with more confidence.

It's fashionable to be indifferent to other people's suffering

I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam.

An anti-Semite used to mean a man who hated Jews. Now it means a man who is hated by Jews.

Yet there seemed to be some truth in the law of probability, according to which the chance of success is directly proportionate to the number of repetitions.

My prayer is that God give me no longer life than I shall be glad to use mine office in edification, and not in destruction.

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me.

Netflix knew I was going to North Korea and Ethiopia and Iceland. They saw the film and liked it and that was that.