Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.

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.

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.

Whenever we find stiffness in the body, our mind should be especially supple. It is never the stiffness in our bodies that limits our practice, it is always the stiffness of our mind.

We all want to be seen not for the choices we made ten years ago, but for who we are today.

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.

Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.

My dad didn't hug me every day and say he loved me and anything like that.

I never relax on the year before. Every year I want to get more out of myself so I use it as a driving force, rather than a pressure thing.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Watching a baby being born is a little like watching a wet St. Bernard coming in through the cat door.

We should always forgive. We should forgive the repentant for their sake, the unrepentant for our sake.

I'll take on anybody on a competition that's on the Internet.