The light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees.

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.

The most dangerous guy at my school-the lone person who makes me feel safe-is reveling in the way I am touching him.

There was a saying that a man's true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory.

Listen, " Mac interrupted, "you still have to knock it out of the park. But it's a degree-of-difficulty thing. You're doing a triple lutz and she's skating. You're the Sasha Cohen here.

Part of me wishes some of the more obsessive fans would spend a fraction of the time they spend studying the band.

I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas; I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day.

Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners.

You are in physical existence to learn and understand that your energy, translated into feelings, thoughts and emotions, causes all experience. There are no exceptions.

If you smell something, say something.

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

You've been killing me inside and I don't want to die like this.