The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice.

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 air is crowded with birds -- beautiful, tender, intelligent birds -- to whom life is a song.

The one thing we learned over 5 years is that nothing works better than just improving your product.

There is only one, believe it or not. I did get knocked up by a baller. A big football player.

I'm not a foodie; I'm an eatie. I don't have anything against foodies. I just don't have the time or the interest to do that much research.

I toyed with the idea of playing Ravel's 'Pavane pour une infante defunte' but I couldn't remember if it's a tune or Latin prescription for piles.

I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.

Education, awareness and prevention are the key, but stigmatisation and exclusion from family is what makes people suffer most

This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.

We must be silent before we can listen. We must listen before we can learn. We must learn before we can prepare. We must prepare before we can serve. We must serve before we can lead.