The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.

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.

Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes there solution. Within this space - between these apparent poles - life flows.

In the simple moral maxim the Marine Corps teaches — do the right thing, for the right reason — no exception exists that says: unless there's criticism or risk. Damn the consequences.

True freedom lies in the realization and calm acceptance of the fact that there may very well be no perfect answer.

I might repeat to myself . . . a list of quotations from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.

If your pride leads you to boast, you will be doubly guilty, because your intelligence will have shown that it is incapable of controlling your pride.

I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.

Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving.

I know the new comedy god is surrealism, but it doesn't touch my heart.

Obsession can be a great thing or it can also destroy lives.

I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.