The practice of yoga certainly is a fantastic practice. I only wish I would do it more. I find I can do it alone but it is much better if I have some guidance. Although I can do it alone it is a little bit sloppy. Ultimately, all of those techniques try to bring more oxygen to the brain. We can think and love better if we have more oxygen.

The art of living is simply the art of using energy in an intelligent and creative way.

Teenagers have to be sustained; they have to be given something to live for and something that involves them without having to make a child, a human being.

You would think that as you get older you would be more disciplined. As I get older I get less disciplined. I just play around!

Our emotions are ever-changing and infinitely varied, but the words with which we describe them are fixed and rigid. Our life is like quicksilver, our vocabulary like steel. Sometimes a consummate poet succeeds in rendering the quality of life in words. For the rest of us, this is not possible.

Power is just so much part of the human being because power is survival. But I wonder if that is the best way to survive, by killing someone else.

One asana is strong, then again another is very soft and gentle. So you have this modulation from one asana to another, just as you have from one feeling to another. Then they all, of course, make you lighter, give you space. I feel that space is what I get and receive and like to have - space inside which makes more space for openness outside.