A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.

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.

History, if it has taught us anything at all, has taught us that the strange ideas we deride today will one day be our celebrated truths.

All effort is in the last analysis sustained by faith that it is worth making.

I think the industry finally gets it. They've lost the connection with the American public, and they've got to rebuild the trust with the American public.

The doctor says to the patient, "Take your clothes off and stick your tongue out the window". "What will that do" asks the patient. The doctor says "I'm mad at my neighbor!".

If by religion we mean a belief in humanity rather than the gods, an effort to make man better and a little happier, then yes, I'm very religious.

The wise man doesn't compete; therefore nobody can compete with him.

Procrastination is the seed of self destruction.

Self-confidence may be mistaken for egotism if it is not accompanied by humility of the heart.

A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up.

When remaining in awareness itself, every thought movement, no matter what kind, is like a drawing in air.