I'm comfortable with anything that fits me well. Bad tailoring is what I am uncomfortable with.

What people think is their individual nature is just a bundle of thoughts, emotions, ideas, opinions, and prejudices. The world can do without this individuality.

Leadership is neither about you or me; it is about something that needs to be done. Leaders figure out how it can be made to happen and get ten or a million people to see that this is the way to do it.

At my ashram, people work long hours joyfully because they are inspired. When people are involved and joyfully doing something, they usually turn out ten times more and do more than what they would normally do as a duty.

Many philosophies have evolved based on the choice of food. But one must remember there is nothing religious, philosophical, spiritual, or moral about the food we eat. It is only a question of whether the food is compatible with the kind of body we have.

If you listen to your body, your body will clearly tell you what kind of food it is happy with.

In terms of the quality of food entering you, vegetarian food is definitely far better for the system than non vegetarian.

Yoga means union. Union means the boundaries of the individual self-dissolve, and you experience existence as yourself.

In India, nothing is accomplished by policy changes alone. Unless people can relate emotionally to something, nothing happens on the ground.

A sense of morality makes a person repetitive in thought and action. Such a person will obviously not get anywhere.

If you impose morality on people, they will find ways to circumvent their guilt. They will make offerings to temples - or other places of worship - but also continue doing things that make them feel guilty.

When you stop people from doing certain things, there is a good chance that they will do exactly what they have been told to abjure. That is how human nature is.

At times, it appears easy to sermonise on morality and ethics. But morality and ethics appear good only when applied to others, never on oneself.

When there is a choice, it is best to eat live vegetarian food. 'Live' means in its uncooked condition, because a live cell has everything in itself to sustain life. The idea is to take life into you. When we cook food, it destroys the life in it.

Yoga is not a belief system - it is not a new religion, philosophy or a teaching but a technology. I call it a technology because you don't have to believe it; you just have to learn to use it. It does not matter what your religion is, what your colour is, what your race is, or where you come from. If you learn to use yoga, it works for you.

Yoga is not Indian; it does not belong to India.

If you don't have very strong emotions or very intense thoughts about something, you cannot get depressed.

Being mentally ill is not a joke. It is a most painful thing.

If you have physical ailments, you will get everyone's compassion, but when you have a mental ailment, you will get laughter, unfortunately. This is because it is very difficult to make out when somebody is sick and when somebody is being stupid.

Golf is basically about geometry and your ability to gauge how things are, the terrain, the distances, and exerting the right amount of swing and force.

There are no problems in the world. There are just situations. Some situations you know how to handle. Some you do not know how to handle.

There is no good leader. First of all, if you think you are a leader, you are just messed up in your head. People should think you are a leader. If you think you are a big success, again, you are messed up. Other people should think you are a success.

If you don't take yourself seriously, you will die joyfully. If you take yourself seriously, you will go through a lot of misery.

I have not worked with farmers. I have not worked with prisoners. I have only worked with human beings. I didn't see anybody as anything other than that.

As Canadians who proudly demand the equal treatment of minorities, religious freedom, gender equality and basic human rights for its citizens - allowing our political leaders to shamefully ignore these values in the name of business abroad, falls short of the high standard we rightfully set for ourselves.

Oh, I think Canadians look like all sorts of people. That's the beauty of Canada.

Inequality is on the rise in Canada and those at the top have no idea what life is like for most Canadian families.

Communities and workers should be partners at the table, not waiting on the sidelines while government and the fossil fuel industry dictate climate policy.

We have to fight climate change like we actually want to win.

We must again be the party that inspires Canadians, that makes their hearts beat faster.

I have long been an advocate for peace and human rights in Canada and around the globe.

There is no excuse for inaction in the face of economic injustice.

Fighting for human rights, a commitment to social justice and treating people with dignity are all things that are important to us as Canadians.

Tax avoidance and evasion by the rich undermine democracy by starving social programs and public services. They also send a message to ordinary citizens that the rules of the economic game are rigged against them.

My dad struggled younger in his life and eventually had become very well settled and bought a nice car for himself. And every now and then I'd take it for a spin and, almost without fail, if I took his car I'd get pulled over.

The higher the stakes, the more responsible we have to be. It was with this in mind that I began to build my Green Economy and Climate Agenda.

I don't have a firm line on balanced budgets.

Our public spaces should be places that are inclusive, that bring people together.

Indigenous communities have suffered horribly as a result of residential schools.

In difficult economic times, I'm firmly opposed to austerity.

If you need medication in our country, we want to make sure you use your health card, not your credit card. That means a national publicly delivered single payer pharmacare for all.

It's hard to love yourself when you've been told your whole life that there is something wrong with you - when you are called dirty because of your skin color.

If the concern is security, there needs to be evidence-backed policies to increase security and safety, while maintaining our liberties and freedoms. Policies that clamp down on freedoms and don't increase security empirically need to be outright rejected.

We need to recognize that it is growing economic inequality that creates the conditions for hate to fester.

Beyond advocating for greater access to consumer markets abroad, we need to go one step further and advocate for a higher quality of life for the people who are the driving force behind them.

I believe that if we are able to, obviously we need to ensure that we have a robust budget that's balanced, but there's no way I would ever accept austerity.

It's one thing to say you're feminist, but then what does that mean? Not selling arms to a regime that is the most repressive and probably one of the worst human rights violators, particularly towards women, like Saudi Arabia?

I have been asked about terrorism many times, and each time I speak as clearly as I can.

A beard and a turban sometimes conjure up negative associations, but if you see someone with a lime-colored, bright orange or pink turban, it disarms people's stereotyped notion of this image.

It's heartbreaking to think that the joy of building a family is being dimmed by the economic squeeze young people are feeling.