Mastery of yoga is really measured by how it influences our day-to-day living, how it enhances our relationships, how it promotes clarity and peace of mind.

The success of Yoga does not lie in the ability to perform postures but in how it positively changes the way we live our life and our relationships.

The success of Yoga must not be measured by how flexible your body becomes, but rather by how much it opens your heart.

Anybody can breathe. Therefore anybody can practice yoga.

The quality of our breath expresses our inner feelings.

When we are attentive to our actions we are not prisoners to our habits.

In stages, the impossible becomes possible.

The recognition of confusion is itself a form of clarity.

Yoga serves the individual, and does so through inviting transformation rather than by giving information.

The ultimate goal of yoga is to always observe things accurately, and therefore never act in a way that will make us regret our actions later.

A good teacher sees the commonality of all human beings and helps each individual find his uniqueness.

The greatest wisdom is to understand emptiness.

Happiness is a choice and a state of mind.

One hour of life crowded to the full with glorious action and filled with noble risks is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum.

I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.

Uncollected sales taxes on Internet purchases cost the states more than $16 billion in 2001.

For me, all of the data that is contained in your cell memory, and in your energetic field, is able to be picked up.

My feelings, gratitude, for instance, are denied me simply because of my social position.

Scientific discovery is not valuable unless it has commercial value.

You are always new to me.

We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.