I must be right. Never an aspirin. Never injured a day in my life. The whole country, the whole world, should be doing my exercises. They'd be happier.

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.

...notice all the many beautiful things, nature, your own soul, stuff other people do.... like help out, smile, create, dance...

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once.

Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.

Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry.

They say the one thing that people who live the longest have in common is that they have a religious belief.

Beyond the Thunder is the closest I've recorded to an acoustic thing.

I have a boy's body. I would prefer to have more curves because I think that's more beautiful. I would much rather have J. Lo's body than mine.

Some books are lies frae end to end.

Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.

The Labor roots are very strong.Paul Keating, made a comment several years ago about looking at that dragging yourself out of poverty, dragging yourself out of that situation.