Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.

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.

The inner dimension and the hidden time have already been discovered.

Those who want to learn, listen. Those who do not want to think, speak.

I feel I'm living in parentheses

I should think wrestling is the most positive thing in the world. The fact is, behind the scenes, there's stuff that goes on that's bush-league. It's laughable.

Your actions will follow you full circle round,the higher the leap, I said, the harder the ground!

The practice of democracy means that I, one person, one humble person, nevertheless feel some responsibility if the officials for whose election I was responsible go too far out of line.

People are nice enough, but you can hear the giant tick of the second hand. People are so harried.

There are some writers who feel they are elected by God. I am not. I am elected by the devil - this is clear.

I'm the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me

If there were 'intelligence flu', there would be so many people walking around in the damn cold weather, hoping to be contaminated by that flu!