“The hour has arrived to abandon theories and go directly to what is practical.”

“Before going back to college, i knew i didn't want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books and libraries without knowing what the hell is going on in the streets. Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory. The two have to go together.”

“In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.”

“He obviously needed more practice, but no matter how often I abandoned him out there, his sense of direction never seemed to improve.”

“The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.”

“[I]t is important not to abandon the practice [of yoga] because we believe it is driven by the wrong motivation. The practice of yoga itself transforms. Yoga has a magical quality. . . . (20)”