The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.

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.

Beauty is an ecstasy it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

American love — like coke in green glass bottles...they don't make it anymore.

Nothing happens randomly.

If you empty, you can be filled up with anything. It could be water or it could be gasoline.

I do like people who have not yet made up their minds about everything, who in fact are still receiving

Whoever prematurely begins a work that is above his strength receives nothing, but only brings harm upon himself.

If I have sometimes seemed to make fun of Woman, I assure you it has only been for the purpose of egging her on.

A golf ball can stop in the fairway, rough, woods, bunker or lake. With five equally likely options, very few balls choose the fairway.

Don't get so stuck in your ways that you can't change.