If we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care.
It is the absence of hope, which equals the despair that is the punishment.
Childhood is so important. Without a loving one, you're vulnerable throughout your life. We're all the things our parents are - the good and the not so good. Thankfully, I have a wonderful wife who's a brilliant mother.
There's often an assumption you're more privileged if you belong to a family with people who have made a success.
You will surely smile with me when I say, 'Thank God one can still recognise self-pity as such and not give it any greater dignity than just that.
When I teach a new group of students, I introduce some yoga philosophy, but I don't overload them with information. Just enough so they understand the real tradition behind this ancient practice and that it's not a stretching class. Guys come in and they're a little nervous. I tell them that when they cross the threshold of the door, they're crossing to a different dimension. They're moving from an externally-oriented reality to an internally-oriented one.
Ninety percent of what most yoga teachers do is teach asana practice. While asana discharges stress and so forth, it was never intended to be a standalone practice. The true intent of yoga is personal transformation. What we get out of the privilege of teaching prisoners is the opportunity to focus on our own personal development. You can be of service, and, while helping others transform their lives, you have the deeper opportunity to transform your own. What we teach in prison is how we live our lives.
I wanted people to connect with the lyrics, even if it's in some weird way, because they're all personal.
We humans still have a long way to go with learning to live harmoniously with our environment and its wildlife.
It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.
I'm rarely invited to start-up parties, but who cares about their trinkets and apps anyway?