The one you confront in Yoga is yourself. All that is rigid and stiff in you, all that says 'No.

It is through our hands that we speak to the child. That we communicate. Touch is the child's first language, understanding comes long after feeling

Birth may be a matter of a moment, but it is a unique one.

Learn to respect this sacred moment of birth, as fragile, as fleeting, as elusive as dawn.

This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted.

Imagining birth as the baby experiences it was an entirely new way of looking at it.

Yes, we should not forget that the five senses are one. And all of them extensions of the skin

Yes, hell exists. It is not a fairy tale. One indeed burns there. This hell is not at the end of life. It is here. At the beginning. Hell is what the infant must experience before he gets to us.

She was crazy but he needed her. Oh I am in so much trouble he thought, and stared blindly up at the ceiling as the droplets of sweat began to gather on his forehead again.

Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into tragedy. It is more than merely painful, it is disgusting.

I want a man as nice as my retarded dog, but one that doesn't crap on the floor.

I just don't want to be known as the actress who can sing. I want to be known as the singer who can act, too. It's great cross-promotion.

Truth is beautiful and divine, no matter how humble its origin; it is the same in the musty boiler-room as it is in the glorious stars of heaven.

Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature

Through the craziness, yoga classes allow me a safe space to breathe and put energy into myself.

When I was an animal I evolved through selfishness. Now that I am a man my evolution can be achieved only through self-sacrifice.

The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.