Practice means making an effort to keep your mind steady. Yoga is about learning to pay attention. That's what drives transformation.

I think it's really important to create spiritual revolutionaries.

I really think there's an evolution to the practice and the individual no matter what brings you in, whether it's wine and yoga or chocolate and yoga or surfing and yoga.

My sangha, what I seem to attract, are people who have been practicing a long time, they're teaching, they're more serious about their spiritual journey.

Separation of mind and body, that's been around since the Greeks.

When setbacks arise - and they will from time to time - regroup, recharge, refocus and refine.

Sometimes you have to trust grownups, perhaps more so when they are not there to actually supervise you.

The point that I think myself to be so terribly clever is the precise point at which I am beginning to think myself to be god-like, which causes me to become God-less.

Every kid I meet who's a reader has got something like that, their fantasy world. And science fiction is the best, especially for girls because it's the one place where you can do the forbidden.

It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result.

The church has been planted as a paradise in this world.

Abolitionists were men of sharp angles. Organizing them was like binding crooked sticks in a bundle.

It's the best. And the job site isn't too bad, either.

Listen, I would never judge someone who screwed their babysitter for years or knocked up their secretary, so don't ask me to.

So please get your rags And your polishing jars, Somebody has to go polish the stars.