Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.

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.

My imagination is my temple where I meditate and pray to change human consciousness and awareness so that I may find peace.

When a woman knows she cannot attain her worldly love, she gives it an eternal form.

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.

Only one accomplishment is beyond both the power and the mercy of the Gods. They cannot make the past as though it had never been.

You must pray to God for forgiveness because I can give you none

THE old man died beneath the wheels of the twentieth century. There was nothing left but stains, bloodstains and fragments of flesh . . . And the same thing is happening to my generation.

Some people give you that motivation to work harder simply to get the hell away from wherever they are.

Computers are not accountable. People are.

Neither man nor God is going to tell me what to write.

A wedding invitation is a gift subpoena.