Of course, not all desires lead to happiness. Desires can and do lead to pain and frustration.

Do yoga in order to know what to do when you're not doing yoga.

Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker, and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened, then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion and a genuine desire to serve others.

There is no doubt that the foundation of being a great yoga teacher is being a great yoga student.

We are already complete. All we need is the clarity to recognize the wholeness that is us.

The quality of your practice is ultimately measured by its effect on the quality of your life. In other words, mastery in yoga is mastery of life.

If you make time for silence, the sacred will unfold.

Stop trying to distinguish the joy of meditation from the messiness of life. Begin to see the divine in everything. She is in the joy just as much as the misery.

In the end, yoga has less to do with what you can do with your body and more to do with the happiness that unfolds from realizing your full potential.

From a yogic perspective, stillness, coupled with expanded awareness, is by far the most powerful medium by which you can affect your destiny.

Desire, instead of being an obstacle to an inspired and fulfilled life, is the very thing that propels you toward it.

Whatever has befallen you was not meant to escape you, and whatever has escaped you was not meant to befall you.

Specialization, concentration and consistency is the key to outstanding performance... Love your zone!

Great thoughts cannot remain silent. They are born to scream!

Stand-up isn't something I just sit down and start writing - it's ideas you come up with in the shower, while you're driving, waiting in line.

The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine.

I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.

It's kind of like family. I can't say that we go out to lunch and to the movies every day with each other. Everyone's fully grown adult women with lives.

The complexities of what we are given in life are vast and beyond comprehension.

I have nothing to declare but my genius, and this four-kilo bag of cocaine.

Women are like elephants to me. I like to look at them, but I wouldn't want to own one.