“A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.”

Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one’s life purposeful, useful and noble.

Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun.

Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.

The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.

The light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees.

Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.

How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?

Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.

The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.

All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.

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.

The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.

It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.

Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.

True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.

It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.

That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.

I don’t care how much you may think they’re funny or how interesting they may sound. If we nominate someone that 40 to 50 percent of our party doesn’t – can’t stand, we are going to lose.

It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.

The truth is every problem can’t be solved by government. Many are caused by the moral breakdown in our society. And the answers to those challenges lie primarily in our families and our faiths, not our politicians.

We’re all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I’m complicit in the things that I’m trying to oppose.

Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee, That we his evil power may bind, His prisoners to free.

We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.

You may as well say, ‘That’s a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.