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

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.

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.

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.

If you can't be as best as you dreamed of, Least be a good man in reality.

It's not about the storms we go through, it's about the umbrella that gets us through.

We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.

The essence of sin is a shift from God centeredness to a self-centeredness. The essence of salvation is a denial of self, not an affirming of self.

Through Love and through Beauty, we achieve immortality.

My mother taught me everything I know; how to speak properly, posture, enunciation.

There is no thermometer for wants!

My goal as an actor was to work - to be a working actor, whether it was in theater, and, well, I didn't even consider film and television when I was in New York, but what came along, came along.

I love seeing young people take a stance and not be afraid to say how they feel, and protest when they feel things are wrong or unjust.