Yoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being

Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.

Intellectuals tend to be arrogant. Intelligence, like money, is a good servant but a bad master. When practicing pranayama, the yogi [makes] himself humble and without pride in his intellectual attainments.

Do not live in the future, only the present is real

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.

Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.

The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.