“I am tough, and sometimes I tell it like it is. Tough love can work wonders.”

Would you rather suffer 90 minutes or 90 years?

Maintaining spirituality and humanism are the keys to success. Its a balance.

Nothing can steal happiness, peace, away from you: if anyone does make you angry, you are the loser; if someone can allow you to lose peace, you are the loser.

Yoga is the only exercise in the world you can do at any age. There is always some posture that will improve your health, mind and soul.

Women like me. Women love me, so if I really wanted to involve the women, I don’t have to assault the women.

No matter how old or sick or out of shape, you can still stretch and have a new beginning with yoga.

If you have a good spine, the gods will chase you. Nobody has psychological or emotional problems, everyone has a bad spine.

The right way is the hard way.

You are never too old or too broken. It is never too late to begin, or to start all over again.

Bikram Yoga will give you ‘The Key to the Kingdom of Health’

If you don’t suffer, you don’t get anything. Nothing easy in life.

Until you destroy your body, you don’t learn to appreciate it. Treat the body like a temple because the body is so beautiful. If and when you understand your body then you will respect it.

Lady Gaga listens to me. Her mantra is only one word – ‘Bikram’ – because Bikram makes her what she is today. It works.

The body is like a bud, until the sun rises it will not bloom, until it blooms it will not be beautiful or give perfume. So respect it, take care of it.

Yoga is the perfect vehicle for change of yourself. First by creating a strong and powerful body and mind. It is a starting point from which you can begin to realize your human spirit.

In life you only have to travel 6 inches. That is the distance from your mind to your heart.

I know that the vitriol and hyperbole that exists online, and the anonymity, can be deadly because it’s cloaked in negativity and it’s brutal sometimes.

It’s a great genre because you can do a lot. Sometimes in thrillers, you can really explore things, and it’s the same in this genre.

I am not an artist except that when I envision a concept, I sometimes indulge it.

I see stuff sometimes and have a good laugh.

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

I write till the end at least a draft of a play or a novel; but sometimes,

In fact, sometimes the only way they’ll ever exist is if you make them yourself.

Sometimes my brain writes a check that reality can’t cash.