The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.

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 am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep

If you or I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world.

The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary

We have eyes, and we're looking at stuff all the time, all day long. And I just think that whatever our eyes touch should be beautiful, tasteful, appealing, and important.

If I didn’t already own this, how much would I spend to buy it?

There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.

I think “Batman Begins” is certainly my favorite Batman movie I’ve seen.

What you see you become.

Fishing... is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait.

Generally I don't listen to sad songs if I'm sad. I listen to happy songs.