I think it's interesting that the opposite of being active in yoga is not being passive. It's being receptive.

Rather than allowing our response to an even affect our breathing, we can learn instead to let our breathing change our relationship to the event.

See if you can approach your own practice with a healthy combination of mindfulness, playfulness, precision, and curiosity

Yoga is not about touching your toes. It's about unlocking your ideas about what you want, where you think you can go, and how you will achieve it when you get there.

Everything we're doing is planting a seed that will come to fruition at some point

The awareness that we cultivate is what makes yoga a practice, rather than a task or a goal to be completed. Your body will most likely become much more flexible by doing yoga, and so will your mind.

Yoga, like meditation, offers a method for coming together after you've come apart.

The historical side of fashion was very attractive to me when I was a teenager in Moscow, working for the costume departments in various Russian theater companies.

The reason that deadline actually can work very well for you is what it forces you to do is make decisions.

The small force that it takes to launch a boat into the stream should not be confused with the force of the stream that carries it along: but this confusion appears in nearly all biographies.

Our doctor would never really operate unless it was necessary. He was just that way. If he didn't need the money, he wouldn't lay a hand on you.

The book trade is a spiritual barometer of a nations well-being.

The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and devoted people to keep it alive.

I also do political cartoons, but a lot of them must stay, as they say, under the coat. But they are very fun to do, and in France, we have a good subject at the moment.

A nonviolent man cannot desire embarrassment.

Any time Uncle Sam, with all his machinery for warfare, is held to a draw by some rice eaters, he's lost the battle.

Rural American families who depend on firewood to heat their homes will be hit just as hard as those who use oil and natural gas.