Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.

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.

He had only heard of dragons, and although he had never seen one, he was sure they existed.

I remember you with my soul clenched in that sadness of mine that you know.

Memories hold you back

Once the public loses confidence in a president's leadership at a time of war, once they don't trust him anymore, once his credibility is sharply diminished, how does he get it back?

War is like love, it always finds a way.

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.

You can't force someone to sell property in America.

To see the future you have to travel on the rough edge of experience.

Writing and thinking is not economically sustainable.

Unlike art, the consumption of fashion is not based primarily on knowledge or education but functions through visual awareness, a type of sensuality and perception of the corporeal self.