The sleeping tortoise takes all its limbs into its carapace. So does the yogi: going back into himself he does not see anything worldly any longer, he makes peace in himself.

The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is a necessary vehicle for the spirit, for a soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly.

I don't stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.

The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.

We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.

Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.

Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.