The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.

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.

Be true to your word and your work and your friend.

Sitting around fools increases your tolerance

I've done a number of things based on real people or true stories or based on books, and I'm a great believer that you have to be true to the script.

Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.

If you were to share your workout playlist with the world, I guarantee there's stuff on there that wouldn't pass the cool test, and M2 helped in that way.

The best pastas are cut with bronze dies that give them a rough texture and allow the sauce to cling.

What's scary is the unknown, the stuff you can't put your finger on.

I often obsess so much about things that I can't get done, that I ruin other things.

Man ... put himself in a tight corner when he decided that woman was innately passive.

The thing itself is one; the images are many. What leads to a perceptive understanding of the thing is not the focus on one image, but the viewing of many images together.