My own interest in Yoga came from a vague understanding of Indian thought and Indian philosophy in the late sixties and early seventies and from looking at the idea of meditation and at what meditation was.

Oh, things always get better. Tomorrow will always be better. Just think about it . . . is there any time in history in which you'd rather live than now?

We've drifted away from being fishers of men to being keepers of the aquarium.

Breath is perhaps the first thing we have in life. It's how we measure the starting of life and it's how we measure the ending of life.

If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.

Mr. President, I love you, but you're wrong. (To Richard Nixon, on the Vietnam War)

I hope someday to have so much of what the world calls success, that people will ask me, "What's your secret?" and I will tell them, "I just get up again when I fall down."