You are only as young as your spine is flexible.

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.

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.

Contrology is designed to give you suppleness, natural grace, and skill that will be unmistakably reflected in the way you walk, in the way you play, and in the way you work.

Okay, take a deep breath, I told myself. Don't go all hormonal. Get the facts straight. Have a mental doughnut.

It’s not a war. It’s an annihilation, ” he’d mumbled low for her ears only. She’d been unable to respond, only focusing on her own breath and marveling that she in fact was still breathing.

Gabby Giffords was a mentor of mine in the state Legislature and also in Congress.

At some point, you protest too much they think you're guilty just because you're protesting.

Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body

We've been at peace about as long as e were at war.

Be patient with all that is unsolved in your life. Learn to love the questions themselves, until some distant day, without your knowing, you will have lived into the answers.

The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset.

You know, if Nancy Davis hadn't come along when she did, I would have lost my soul.

Every action has its pleasures and its price.