Concentrate on the correct movements each time you exercise, lest you do them improperly and thus lose all the vital benefits of their value.

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.

How beautiful it is to hug someone with kindness when he is trying to hurt you!

Prayer or worship does not therefore grant a free pass to selfishness ...

I've seen so many lives turn around from the impossible. I have come to embrace the idea that even the simplest act of understanding, love and attention can produce the biggest results.

There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty

The important thing is not to do any agriculture whatsoever, and particularly to make the modern agricultural sciences a forbidden area - they're worse than witchcraft, really.

Having rock-star problems may be the closest I ever get to being an actual rock star.

The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.

I don't usually wear a lot of makeup because I tend to like a natural look.

Your either in or out. There's no in between.

No work begun shall ever pause for death.