The pose begins when you want to leave 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.

I always am in a role, lovely – for you, for them – even for myself. Yeah... Even when I’m alone, I am still in a role – and I myself am the most exacting audience I have ever had.

You're not as invisible as you think.

Sorry, maybe this is the head injury talking, but … what?

Lotus's efforts around the Mac were pathetically unsuccessful, which is sad.

What will be the death of me are buillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I eat in disproportionate quantities.

And after all this time that you still owe, you're still a good-for nothing I don't know.

There is no sin so prevalent, so insidious, and so deep as the sin of fearing people more than we fear God.

There are amazing people in this world that just need an opportunity.

The most important thing is to just be good at what you do.

Amidst the rush of worldly comings and goings, I observe how all endings become beginnings