“Asanas keep the body healthy and strong and in harmony with nature.”

“I am fascinated by what is beautiful, strong, healthy, what is living. I seek harmony.”

“Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos — the trees, the clouds, everything.”

“Independence from the colonial rule will remain a dream until and unless the people of India are healthy and strong in mind and body.”

“Asanas bring perfection in body, beauty in form,grace, strength, compactness, and the harness and brilliance of a diamond.”

“To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.”

“Of the two aspects of asana exertion of our body and penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat”

“Ars sana in corpore sano. (Healthy art in a healthy body.)”

“Swaraj, will always remain a dream unless the people are healthy and strong in mind and body. They can not be so unless mothers have the health and wisdom to look after the children properly”

“For physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body; it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity. The relationship between the soundness of the body and the activities of the mind is subtle and complex. Much is not yet understood. But we do know what the Greeks knew: that intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong; that hardy spirits and tough minds usually inhabit sound bodies.”