We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.

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.

We are loved if we love, another truth we always seem to forget. ...Loving requires so much courage and so little expectation.

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

I always thought I could play pro ball. I had confidence in my ability, You have to. If you don't who will?

I can't think of a 30- or 40-year-old who can behave like Mugabe. They wouldn't even know where to begin, and given their own educational exposure, I think it will be very positive for Africa.

I want people to hear or watch something I've done and feel that I've given it everything I've got.

We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.

One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable.

Without Grace you cannot do anything.

Fear knocked at the door. Love answered and no one was there.