Taking time out each day to relax and renew is essential to living well.

I think it's possible for all of us to use our yoga to distract us from our yoga. Because we get so caught up in the form that we forget the soul.

Compassion is fierce and strong, and it holds people accountable. But it doesn't do it with anger or judgment.

I don't think we find compassion. I think we become the space that compassion wants to live in.

Why are we doing all these handstands, backbends and arm balances? I don't know why we're doing them unless our lives are shaped and changed.

I believe that yoga should lead us to a place where kindness and compassion are instantaneous.

Joy is big. Joy lives in your own drunken electrons, billions of them, spinning and dancing without end in their own intimate Universe, longing for You.

Living your yoga is not just doing it, but being it.

Do not look for joy anywhere else. It is living in you, and gives meaning to all Existence.

I believe myself capable of great things. Some days it feels as if I can't do it alone. It is nice to know I don't have to.

I believe myself capable of great things.

The marvelous Maker!

Any country that is now humbled and humiliated by darkness will be raised up by God

In the winter, I enjoy cross-country skiing and raising orchids and amaryllises. If I could grow tropical flowers as perennials, I would, especially hibiscus and mandavilla.

When you come out of that pink ugly hole onto this planet you're nothing but a gooey shrieking wrinkled ball of weakness.

It is only after years of struggle and deprivation that the young artist should touch color - and then only in the company of his betters.

Sabbath is that uncluttered time and space in which we can distance ourselves from our own activities enough to see what God is doing.

I rely a great deal on animal instincts.

If the music does not penetrate the heart, the soul, the mind, and the body... Then you ain't gon' feel it.

The juice goes out of Christianity when it becomes too based on faith rather than on living like Jesus or seeing the world as Jesus saw it.

[Jazz musicians] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing.