Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.

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.

I never swear, Monseigneur. I say Yes or No, and as I am a gentleman, I keep my word.

Time must be converted into product

People who know me know I'm strong, but I'm vulnerable.

I have never - I have never let go of my childhood contacts. My best friends from childhood are still my best friends.

I'm working harder now than ever before. I couldn't turn down the BBC job because I've never been offered the opportunity of killing three or four people on screen before!

Anytime you stop and talk to somebody and you learn about them, you start to walk in their shoes a little bit and you see things through a different lens.

And the people I'm best friends with on the films are not generally the actors.

The longer and the deeper the thought, the shorter the sentence of wisdom will be.

I think he got an incidental elbow in the face, messed up his pretty red lips a little bit. But other than that he'll be fine.

Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back.