Words cannot convey the value of yoga - it has to be experienced.

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.

I don't want to break my memories with you.

Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known.

Live to avoid all the numerous field mines of life.

What I really see myself doing is late-night TV. No woman has ever done it.

The American people are both anxious for change. We're in a time of flux.

ISIS has a caliphate the size of Indiana! Also, US military has been totally gutted. Can't even project power anymore.

Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage.

Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.

I had to learn the image is not the word, which is a jolt for a literary soul. But it has served me well in terms of understanding plot, in terms of watching actors develop characters.

Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.