As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.

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.

A library is a sacred place where the voices of the ancients can still be heard if we but give them the required silence.

It does not matter where you are standing right now, what matters is where you are headed to.

You are the limit to yourself - raise yourself over it.

That in itself made her a little intriguing and enticing. A woman who doesn't know her own potential for passion

his was a profession in which a good leader constantly had to adapt to new weapons, whether he liked them or not,

Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.

I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.

The fullness or emptiness of life will be measured by the extent to which a man feels that he has an impact on the lives of others.

How ridiculous! You're going to have the first black president apologize for slavery?

What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.