Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.

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.

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

I can't sit around doing nothing. If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.

I have no qualifications to do anything else and there weren't any formal application forms you had to fill in for stand-up, so I thought I'd give that a twist.

America has been another name for opportunity.

Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.

We don't have to start all over again and try to keep the slate clean. There is no more slate.

My book has a lot of parts of my life that people don't know about.

If living on fruits and water is of superior merit, monkeys and fish will go to heaven before men.

No one can be authentically human while he prevents others from being so.

Without Ukraine, Russia's imperial aspirations are essentially nostalgia, but it's not a real policy.