The process of breathing is the most accurate metaphor we have for the way that we personally approach life, how we live our lives, and how we react to the inevitable changes that life brings us.

The world doesn't really need more people who can bend their bodies into amazing positions. What it needs are kinder, more compassionate, generous people.

When we bring our mind into our body, the body becomes mindful, and the mind becomes embodied

Slowing down is the precursor to Yoga practice because this simple act allows us to consider our thoughts, feelings and actions more carefully in the light of our desire to live peacefully.

Yoga is a technology for arriving in this present moment. It is a means of waking up from our spiritual amnesia, so that we can remember all that we already know.

The asanas are useful maps to explore yourself, but they are not the territory.

When we feel connected to the vastness of life and are confident of life's abundance, we are naturally generous and able to practice the third yama, non-stealing (asteya).

Am I becoming the kind of person I would like to have as a friend?

Life is not inherently meaningful. We make meaning happen through the attention and care we express through our actions.

In truth it matters less what we do... than how we do it and why.

Through daily yoga practice we can become present to our own fundamental goodness and the goodness of others

We have to give up so many things when the people we love die. So we hang on to other familiar things.

Without love, I'm more at ease, I'm sure. The sky is high, the mountain wind is sweeping, And all my thoughts are innocent and pure.

Talking to Lee Child and discovering, from his chapter in The Chopin Manuscript, that he's even more of an audio geek than I am (as his chapter in Chopin proves).

I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

A great idea is simply the combination of many good ideas.

I always say that talent and capability is everywhere, all it needs is opportunity.

I was too worried about the grades and I should have been more worried about learning.

The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.

Every man gets an opportunity once in a lifetime.