Move from the known to the unknown.

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.

Myrtle Mae, you have a lot to learn, and I hope you never learn it.

There is no faster way to garner the lasting respect of employees, partners, and consumers than to become the embodiment of an ideal.

Once you have lived in New York and made it your home, no place else is good enough

There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself down on a sofa, feeling you want to cry your head off.

Nothing — the only perfection, the only absolute. Infinite and eternal nothing.

The child should have the advantage of ignorance as well as of knowledge, and is fortunate if he gets his share of neglect and exposure.

I intimidate a lot of men, because I've done a lot. I'm established. I'm successful.

I speak two languages, Body and English.

It's huge in the U.K., if someone's doing well, to put them down. That's what we do all the time. It's kind of like a cultural thing.

To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the ultimate irony.