Ideally, our muscles should obey our will. Reasonably, our will should not be dominated by the reflex actions of our muscles.

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.

Your life is what happens when you're busy trying to become unbusy.

Sometimes I wished I could cut away old memories and let the wind take them. If a sharp knife could pare away the weakness of those days, I would slice until nothing but the hard lessons remained.

My parents have been married 50-some years, and I've never heard them fight. I got the chance to attend great universities and medical school.

The people I know that have the hardest time keeping it together emotionally are people that don't workout.

God is glorified through healing and deliverance, not through sickness and suffering.

Sometimes things go really well, and sometimes they don't, and it's not ultimately the most important thing.

All I wanted to do was please my adopted family.

When you don't know what to do, try something; if that doesn't work, try something else.

I quite like mistakes. I think they're human.

Every man's first declaration of love is bathos--the zenith of his passion connoting perhaps the nadir of his intelligence.