The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through 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.

we will never be tempted to live by the standards of other people or to be guided by someone else’s opinions if we know who we are

When yellow lights struggle with blue shades in hairlike lines.

Love is the soul's symphony.

In a struggle against a revolutionary idea it is only possible to use ideological elements which are a thousand times more radical, or adopt principles which represent a total reaction against them.

Millions of angels are at God's command.

If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing.

The darker it gets, the brighter your light will shine.

People are studying whether there's a cause of action that competitors, for example, would have if they're harmed by these foreign government payments.

Democracy can only be measured on the existence of an opposition

God is able to do more than man can understand.