A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.

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.

Fate is a crazy thing.

Speculation can be more gentle, can take its time, when it is not driven by desire.

At its edges, a painting makes its surrender to reality. The ways in which it can do so are endlessly revealing, as infinite as the potential forms of painting itself.

Countless forms make up this network. In this world, there are few of us.

Once a song and dance man, always a song and dance man. Those few words tell as much about me professionally as there is to tell.

The arms race is a race between nuclear weapons and ourselves.

To know what is right and choose to ignore it is the act of a coward.

When you first fall in love, it's supposed to be awful. Awful, uncertain, scary, wonderful, confusing, all at once. That's how you know it's real. You have to care deeply. Passionately. That hurts.

A big part of making your own luck is just charging out of the gate every morning.

Now shall I walk or shall I ride? 'Ride,' Pleasure said; 'Walk,' Joy replied.