“I don’t bring yesterday’s poses to today’s practice. I know yesterday’s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don’t want yesterday’s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.”

Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.

My Maman told me that only the crazy ones and the passionate ones accomplish anything in life.

As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.

Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.

Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.

Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.

Health begins with firmness in the body, deepens to emotional stability, then leads to intellectual clarity, wisdom and finally the unveiling of the soul.

Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.

Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.

Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.

Be inspired but not proud.

Yoga is the music of the soul. So do continue, and the gates of the soul will open.

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

Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.

Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.

The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.

I remember the president-elect [Donald Trump] saying that I`m going to do something to dramatically, positively change communities, particularly in urban areas.

A new day is here. Yesterday is a memory. Tomorrow is unknown. Now is the knowing.

Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I’d seen a bad one, I’d feel, “Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better.”

Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.

We ought to be living as if Jesus died yesterday, rose this morning, and is coming back this afternoon.

As well as the prominent manifestation of a “class war” that is largely a continuation of the “race war” of yesterday.

Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.

I personally believe this: We have only today; yesterday’s gone and tomorrow is uncertain.