The full ashtanga system practiced with devotion leads to freedom within one's heart.

Yoga is an internal practice. The rest is just a circus.

It is very important to understand yoga philosophy: without philosophy, practice is not good, and yoga practice is the starting place for yoga philosophy. Mixing both is actually the best.

So whether you do your first downward dog at 14 or 44, it’s not your history but your presence on your mat that counts.

Do your practice and all is coming.

Yoga is for internal cleansing, not external exercising. Yoga means true self-knowledge.

Body is not stiff, mind is stiff.

Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory.

It would be a shame to lose the precious jewel of liberation in the mud of ignorant body building.

Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it. Yoga is universal.... But don't approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain.

Yoga is your mind control capacity.

I just like how [glasses] look on me and how they make me feel more confident. Isn’t that the point of anything we wear, anyway?

One who has accumulated virtue will certainly also possess eloquence; but he who has eloquence doe not necessarily possess virtue.

I've had nothing but great friendship to help me through this.

I could never be cynical, not that I think there's anything wrong with cynicism. I think it can be quite funny at times. But I just feel so grateful to be alive.

And please, don't take offense. It's not an insult if it's true. - Devyn

I personally never got the gist of Facebook and Twitter.

The reason is that in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each other out.

It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Marriage was probably the worst mistake I ever made in my life.

There are cultures that produce different kinds of attitudes, whether it's religion, fatalism, sense of fear, repression, the culture of God and the police minimizes confidence in people.