Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.

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.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger.

It's very hard to find artists in the history of western art who don't make portraiture ideological in some way.

I get such joy from singing- it's good for the soul.

Losing is the great American sin.

Did you think that rats do not have hearts? Wrong. All living things have a heart. And the heart of any living thing can be broken.

It is a pity we can't escape from life when we are young.

I try not to think of actors as I'm writing because I think you do them a disservice by writing for things they've already done.

Why is it always the world? Why is it never just half a block? Or Jersey? You know, something we could live without?

If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.