The hardest part of any yoga practice is rolling out your mat.

Meditation alone cannot heal the world, but it can and does speed up the healing process.

When infused with compassion, even the most useless snake oils have the power to heal broken hearts and shattered souls.

The narrow edge between comfort and discomfort is to a yogi what a grain of sand is to an oyster.

The great paradox of life is that to fully live, we must let a piece of ourselves die.

Instead of asking, “How can I ease my suffering?” yoga would have us ask, “How can I better serve my brothers and sisters?” Because only in answering the latter can we hope to answer the former.

Standing at the end of a diving board looking at the water never made the water warmer, but it will make taking the plunge unnecessarily hard.

Sculpting the future and healing the past can only happen through mindful action in the present moment.

True power—not to be confused with worldly power—is found at that beautifuland sacred spot where will and surrender merge into an unstoppable force.

Forcing Your body into a yoga pose is like brushing your teeth with a wire brush. You may get rid of the plaque but gingivitis will be the least of your concerns.

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.

The worst kind of victim was the kind that was aware of nothing.

My future is one I must make myself.

I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way.

Friendship needs both confidences and confidence in the other's outstretched hand.

It's our last chance [November 8, 2016]. And that includes Supreme Court justices and Second Amendment. Remember that.

My father, whose way was to force every event in nature into an hypothesis, by which means never man crucified TRUTH at the rate he did.

Typically in 'Game of Thrones,' people who are honest and just and do things for the right reasons tend not to survive.

A saleslady holds up an ugly dress and says, 'This looks much better on.' On what? On fire?

Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.