Once you find the truth, no one can hurt you. You can let them off the hook. That is hard! Until then, keep distance, preserve the peace. Eventually it’s like you weren’t hurt.

Yoga ia a way of moving into stillness in order to experience the truth of who you are.

Love is what's left when you let go of everything you don't need.

The purpose of Yoga is to facilitate the profound inner relaxation that accompanies fearlessness. The release from fear is what finally precipitates the full flowering of love.

It is not arrogant or egotistical to feel good inside. You had nothing to do with it. It's simply the honest response to clearly perceived Reality.

Practicing yoga during the day is a matter of keeping your eyes on the road and one ear turned toward the infinite.

We have never stayed home long enough to experience the truth about ourselves.

Yoga is about how you live your life all of the time.

What you're thinking about is what you are being.

Experience yourself in silence.

Don't teach necessarily what others teachers are teaching. Find what it is that you have to offer and teach that.

Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.

I'm interested in the poetry of reality.

I've had years of teasing about my red hair, but I definitely think it toughened me up. If you're ginger, you end up pretty quick-witted.

We have a saying in Tibet: If a problem can be solved there is no use worrying about it. If it can't be solved, worrying will do no good.

It is such a special feeling to win a grand prix.

Of course there are exceptional circumstances, and there is exceptional talent; but, unhappily, exceptional talent does not always win its reward unless favoured by exceptional circumstances.

There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.

By making us stop for a moment, poetry gives us an opportunity to think about ourselves as human beings on this planet and what we mean to each other.

I sold a million books because I have a lot of fans, not because people hate me.