Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.

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.

Don't you know how, in talking a foreign language, even fluently, one says half the time not what one wants to but what one can?

I still find the moon more amazing than the fact men have walked on it.

I hope young athletes can imitate my good side only, not the bad side.

Love is love's reward.

I did for the fun of it

It's hard to see clearly when your eyes are squinched tight out of fear.

I think there's an enormous value to being negative. The world we live in today, negativity is not permitted.

Living an environmentally responsible lifestyle can seem like a Scrooge-like list of don'ts. Don't take that flight, don't buy that car, don't eat those blueberries flown in from somewhere far-flung.

If our faith delivers us from worry, then worry is an insult flung in the face of God.

In chess, as in life, a man is his own most dangerous opponent.