The Maestro spoke again. "When we are not, at what point do we become?" I could not reply. For I had grasped no shape of his thoughts. I understood neither what he said nor his intent behind it.

Lying eats into the soul. If it becomes a habit it frays the edge of your spirit. Truth telling, although sometimes harder to do, strengthens your heart. It serves a person ill not to tell the truth.

Ignorance rises in our counity because people do not utlize their common knowledge to express their thoughts to others that can be considered fair and rational.

Even in the best of worlds the soul needs refurbishing from time to time.

Silence is the best music when you are in need of silence and music is the best silence when you are in need of music!

Sometimes it takes a lot of courage to be who you are.

Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one's life purposeful, useful and noble.

Get money first; virtue comes after.

Youth is so cynical. There's never anything to believe in as a teen.

If you criticize what you’re doing too early you’ll never write the first line.

I generally had to give in.

To stick to the present and not let it pass without drawing some profit from it, that's what I think duty is. ...let us perservere as far as we can rather today than tomorrow.