Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.

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.

You and your purpose in life are the same thing. Your purpose is to be you.

Love is what creates the freedom and relaxation to be who we really are.

As a Jew, I had no desire to challenge my childhood prejudice. But as a teacher, I could not do otherwise.

The measure of our intellectual capacity is the capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better and better problems.

I gather that he nearly knocked you down, damaged your property, and generally made a nuisance of himself, and that you instantly concluded he must be some relation to me.

Oh, yes; the game was to just find something about everything to be glad about—no matter what 'twas

War makes strangers bedfellows.

You can't get to genius on a platform of excuses.

I'm the last in the line of Russells and Chamberlains.

It is by no means necessary that a great nation should always stand at the heroic level. But no nation has the root of greatness in it unless in time of need it can rise to the heroic mood.