Yoga is a method for restraining the natural turbulence of thoughts, which otherwise impartially prevent all men, of all lands, from glimpsing their true nature of Spirit. Yoga cannot know a barrier of East and West any more than does the healing and equitable light of the sun.

The Creator, in taking infinite pains to shroud with mystery His presence in every atom of creation, could have had but one motive - a sensitive desire that men seek Him only through free will.

All honest work is good work; it is capable of leading to self-development, provided the doer seeks to discover the inherent lessons and makes the most of the potentialities for such growth.

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar; now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar.

When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we've really and truly arrived. Parity at last!

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

Sports are a microcosm of society.

I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.

Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships.

I wanted to use sports for social change.

In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.

When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.

There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.

Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.

The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.

Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.

Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.

Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.

Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.

Communication is so much better when people are vulnerable.

I've worn a dress at my wedding. I've worn 6-inch Louboutins. I've got no fear and no shame.

Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.

I can't stress how much my daughter is an inspiration to stay sober. When I come home and she opens those big blue eyes at me, it's the most amazing feeling I could ever feel.

I feel French is very close to Urdu. Both languages are beautiful. Sadly, their beauty is lost in translation.

Had I not made it big, my family would have told me to recheck my decision. Now that I am successful, there is no way. They have to accept it gracefully.

Being sexy is all about attitude, not body type. It's a state of mind.

I work on my body to stay fit, but that does not make me superior to anyone. I am a forthright and hardworking girl.

Life is all about evolution. What looks like a mistake to others has been a milestone in my life. Even if people have betrayed me, even if my heart was broken, even if people misunderstood or judged me, I have learned from these incidents. We are human and we make mistakes, but learning from them is what makes the difference.

When people have compassion, friendship, and unity, they speak and think in a constructive way to ensure national independence and prosperity.

A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good.

We must use the wrath of nature as our teacher.

Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.

The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival.

If Thai citizens still hold this harmony in their hearts, there is hope that in whatever the situation, Thailand will surely get through it safely and with stability.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.