“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.”

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.

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.

Any kind of problem you have in your life, you come to Bikram. Your life becomes the best in the world.

Would you rather suffer 90 minutes or 90 years? (Regarding a Bikram Yoga session that takes exactly 90 minutes.)

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

The real pleasure,the real peace, the real enlightenment is to give. The more you give the more you get. If you give 10, you get 100.

It wasn’t until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you’ve got to write your own books and nobody else’s, and then everything followed from there.

I didn’t know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for ’em.

The only problem was I needed to use my own group, and things didn’t happen until I did. It wasn’t a real country sound.

How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?

Don’t decide yet,” Hephaestus advised. “Wait until daybreak. Daybreak is a good time for decisions.

The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is a misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things.

How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?

The world doesn’t just stop and say, well, let’s wait until the president catches up before we start challenging America.