Master your breath, let the self be in bliss, contemplate on the sublime within you.

Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God.

Teach what is inside you. Not as it applies to you, to yourself, but as it applies to the other.

Rid your body of its impurities, let your speech be true and sweet, feel friendship for the world, and with humility seek wealth and knowledge.

In the practice of Yoga one can emphasize the body, the mind or the self and hence the effort can never be fruitless.

Where is the delusion when truth is known? Where is the disease when the mind is clear? Where is death when the Breath is controlled? Therefore surrender to Yoga.

No one is wise by birth, for wisdom results from one own's efforts.

Knowing all objects to be impermanent, let not their contact blind you, resolve again and again to be aware of the Self that is permanent.

Why do we need money beyond a point? If we are free of ill health, enmity, and debt, is that not enough? Too much money only leads to less peace.

Regulate the breath, be happy, link the mind with the Lord in your heart.

Never be in debt. Never reside near enemies. Never trap your body through disease. Never forget the Lord with his consort who resides in the heart.

Angry issues need settling time.

My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.

Please don’t be upset. The last thing in the world I want is to see you upset and that too with me. It’s terrifying to see your beautiful eyes turn red with anger.

The idea that I had anything to do with speaking about Islam or about the Muslim world was just absurd to my family. ... I hadn't been to the mosque in like 10 years.

Generally, I have to be able to get the lines out of my mouth without making a mistake before I go to sleep.

There's something vile (and all the more vile because ridiculous) in the tendency of feeble men to make universal tragedies out of the sad comedies of their private woes.

When I watch kids play basketball, they don't know how to think the game. They know what it should look like, but they don't know why.

I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.

I made friends with a boy who was a communist when I was 13 and that broadened my political views, but it also brought me into conflict with my father who was very Right-wing.

There is a place where Contrarieties are equally True.