I think there's room for both private exploration and group work in Yoga.

I've never lost perspective on who I am. Well, maybe briefly, but generally I'm pretty balanced.

Love is stronger than justice.

One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.

One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life, if you knew nothing about me, except that my books were being set in front of you to read, and if you were to read those books in sequence, I don't think you would say to yourself, 'Oh my God, something terrible happened to this writer in 1989.'

I have not given up my faith in democracy - it remains the worst form of government except for all the others - but I have given up my youthful expectation that it would inevitably triumph.

I got quite annoyed after the Haiti earthquake. A baby was taken from the wreckage and people said it was a miracle. It would have been a miracle had God stopped the earthquake. More wonderful was that a load of evolved monkeys got together to save the life of a child that wasn't theirs.

I definitely believe in a God and in a higher power, and I definitely take from many different religious cultures. I go to church.