By exercising your stomach muscles, you wring out the body, you don't catch colds, you don't get cancer, you don't get hernias. Do animals get hernias? Do animals go on diets?

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.

It's what we think we know that keeps us from learning.

History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.

Oh yes. It was well worth it, doing things the proper way.

Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.

I always wanted to be a golfer, only I realised that if I'd played golf I would have been skint.

Testimony is to know and to feel, Conversion is to do and to become.

O' who will walk with me along lifes merry way? A comrade blithe and full of glee, who dares to laugh out loud and free.

I am constantly playing younger. I have a baby face. I'm only five-foot-one, so I am used to playing younger. I love it.

You can't do extraordinary things in the world if you're spending time criticizing others because they don't look or behave the way you think they should.

Seek not to know who said this or that, but take note of what has been said.