One day you too may experience what I have experienced. So right away go and practise.

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.

Should kids check phones at dinner? I don't know. To me, that's a parenting choice.

Are some women and children going to die? Yeah. But it's doing the right thing. You got money, you sit around talking about peace. People who don't have money need some help.

I try to live in such a way that nothing gets bigger than my awareness of God presence on my life.

Liberté, égalité, fraternité. Liberty, equality, fraternity. Watchword of French Revolution. And bold and hard adventures t' undertake, Leaving his country for his country's sake.

I feel like little bits of my soul are being shipped domestically.

A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.

I've had every advantage in the world, despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody's fault but mine.

Most of us have learned the hard way that there are very few things you can absolutely count on in life.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

Love is the only thing you can really give in all this world. When you give love, you give everything.