It would be a shame to lose the precious jewel of liberation in the mud of ignorant body building.

Yoga is an internal practice. The rest is just a circus.

It is very important to understand yoga philosophy: without philosophy, practice is not good, and yoga practice is the starting place for yoga philosophy. Mixing both is actually the best.

So whether you do your first downward dog at 14 or 44, it’s not your history but your presence on your mat that counts.

Do your practice and all is coming.

Yoga is for internal cleansing, not external exercising. Yoga means true self-knowledge.

The full ashtanga system practiced with devotion leads to freedom within one's heart.

Body is not stiff, mind is stiff.

Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory.

Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it. Yoga is universal.... But don't approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain.

Yoga is your mind control capacity.

Briarwood is the pretty poison. There is no cure for Briarwood.

Expect the best, prepare for the worst.

As all our wickedness consists in turning away from our Creator, so all our goodness consists in uniting ourselves with Him.

... and my love stays bitterly glowing, spasms of it will not sleep, and I am helpless and thirsty and need shade but there is no one to cover me- not even God.

I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.

When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.

My husband and I go to Il Fico every Friday, and I get the whole-wheat pizza. I won't eat pizza anywhere else!

When I had forgotten God, yet I then found He had not forgotten me. Even then He did by His Spirit apply the merits of the great atonement to my soul, by telling me that Christ died for me.

What I wanted more than anything was a long career.

O to speed where there is space enough and air enough at last!