Learning is as much an art as teaching

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.

Why, the club was just the quietest place in the world, a place where a woman could run in to brush her hair and wash her hands, and change her library book, and have a cup of tea.

Do unto others as you wish others do unto you.

Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.

Whereas the notion of purpose before was always associated with future, there is now a deeper purpose that can only be found in the present, through denial of time.

If the Nobel Prize was awarded by a woman, it would go to the inventor of the dimmer switch.

I'm happiest when I'm just hanging out with my friends... it really doesn't matter what we do.

Choose satisfaction over salary. Better to be happy with little than miserable with much.

Readers want more of the same from you. So stick to one genre.

It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.

The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all; And every soul bawled out, Well done! As loud as he could bawl.