The practice of yoga allows us to become more conscious of our own physical existence and how significant we really are.

All breathing beings are spiritual; this includes everyone who breathes, whether they are animals or humans, carnivores or vegetarians.

Worry is a prayer for something you don't want.

You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state.

Live with the anticipation that something incredible might happen at any time.

We can't have happiness if we cause others unhappiness.

Don't wait for a better world. Start now to create a world of harmony and peace. It is up to you, and it always has been. You may even find the solution at the end of your fork.

Eating a vegetarian diet can contribute more to saving ourselves and the planet than any other single effort.

The way you treat others determines the way others treat you; the way others treat you determines the way you see yourself; the way you see yourself determines who you are.

We create the world we live in. If we want to change what we don't like in the world, we must start by changing what we don't like about ourselves.

Life begins with an inhale and ends with an exhale. ln between that inhale and that exhale is our life.

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages. I can still smell the formaldehyde of the fetal pigs in biology.

I am not indifferent to the appreciation of kind people. [The voters were] extremely kind in naming me the world's top public intellectual, a title to which I can never see myself as entitled.

The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.

I'm very much of the "make it dark, make it grim, make it tough", but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.

That was the worst part about losing someone-finding a place to store all the thoughts and feelings you'd otherwise share with them.

The best part of my carreer is getting to meet so many different people, because I learn so much from everyone.

Before doing my first open mic, I was sitting in the back watching all these comedians banter back and forth and fire jokes and up each other, and I thought, This is where I wanna be.

If there is one thing of which I am most proud, it's that I made being ginger cool!

Rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him