Compassion is fierce and strong, and it holds people accountable. But it doesn't do it with anger or judgment.

Taking time out each day to relax and renew is essential to living well.

I think it's possible for all of us to use our yoga to distract us from our yoga. Because we get so caught up in the form that we forget the soul.

I don't think we find compassion. I think we become the space that compassion wants to live in.

Why are we doing all these handstands, backbends and arm balances? I don't know why we're doing them unless our lives are shaped and changed.

I believe that yoga should lead us to a place where kindness and compassion are instantaneous.

Joy is big. Joy lives in your own drunken electrons, billions of them, spinning and dancing without end in their own intimate Universe, longing for You.

Living your yoga is not just doing it, but being it.

Do not look for joy anywhere else. It is living in you, and gives meaning to all Existence.

I believe myself capable of great things. Some days it feels as if I can't do it alone. It is nice to know I don't have to.

I believe myself capable of great things.

How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?

Every path has its puddle.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

Even logical positivists are capable of love.

For me, being a writer is not an altered state. It's very ponderous, and very - it's like being a shoemaker.

I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous.

When I pray, I pray believing that God will speak to me and give me an answer to that prayer. That's what a calling is. If I pray, a calling means that I feel like I have a sense from God.

I found people looked better when they laughed

People in bands don't have the kind of conversations people might think they have. The best things about being in a band are the things that are unsaid.

If you don't have an ethic of conservation, you basically have a license to drive a Hummer through the Amazon.