Since I was young my wish has been to die in perfect health - I mean to die with a body that is not destroyed by illness but a body that is consumed by its own long burning fire.

Love your heart. It really is to love yourself to begin with and help everybody else in doing the same. But the heart being the center.

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.

Probably, the secret is to be less complicated. We of course love to make complications - look at the way we live. We have this tremendous amount of information, and probably it is really not so necessary. Maybe if you just drink water, you are kind to people and walk a little bit it's all done already. But we cannot resist this sophistication.

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.

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.

Addiction to food is unfortunately really grave, also to alcohol or to anything else.