Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.

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.

A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.

Truth as philosophy is a gas; as art, it is visible steam.

Me?" All the crappiness of the day, of the last few weeks, zeroed in on this high and mighty B with an itch, and the scared-rabbit feeling faded.

Most books are bought by women.

Get inside information from the president and you will probably lose half of your money. If you get it from the chairman of the board, you will lose all of it.

Italians can't win the game against you, but you can lose the game against the Italians.

I don't know how you defeat an insurgency unless you have some handle on the number of people that you are facing.

On your 60th, here's something philosophical To give the old grey matter a stir How old would you be If you didn't know how old you were?

We are accountable for our actions as we exercise our moral agency. If we understand this principle and make righteous choices, our lives will be blessed.

I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isnt a song that I need to sing.