Before any real benefit can be derived from physical exercises, one must first learn how to breath properly. Our very life depends on it.

The mind, when housed within a healthful body, possesses a glorious sense of power.

In 10 sessions you'll feel the difference, in 20 you'll see the difference, and in 30 you'll have a new body

If your spine is inflexibly stiff at 30, you are old. IF it is completely flexible at 60, you are young.

Change happens through movement and movement heals.

Every moment of our life can be the beginning of great things.

The Pilates Method teaches you to be in control of your body and not at its mercy.

Pilates is gaining the mastery of your mind over the complete control over your body.

You are only as young as your spine is flexible.

A few well-designed movements, properly performed in a balanced sequence, are worth hours of doing sloppy calisthenics or forced contortion.

Patience and persistence are vital qualities in the ultimate successful accomplishment of any worthwhile endeavor.

I hate you."I love you."You're a freak, you know that? Everyone says so. They always have."I'm trying not to be.

To my fellow writers' I say, 'Write. Build an imaginary world like nobody's watching.

Love elevates. Love is what you live for.

The ownership of industry by the state - that is not socialism.

I was into Virginia Woolf and James Joyce [at university] and I think we all thought that [Charles] Dickens wasn't that cool.

There's definitely the desire out there for young people who want to make the movies.

Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread.

Love makes mutes of those who habitually speak most fluently.

There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are reasonably expected to go.

Happiness is the secret ingredient for successful businesses. If you have a happy company it will be invincible.