By all means never fail to get all the sunshine and fresh air you can.

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.

You know and we know, as practical men that the question of justice arises only between parties equal in strength and that the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must.

Don’t answer every critic. Sometimes, the answers you give may be right but misconceived and misunderstood.

Yet these people slander whatever they do not understand, and the very things they do understand by instinct--as irrational animals do--will destroy them.

Compassion, along with love, is the face of altruism.

I've been thinking about songwriting more in terms of playing it live, and how it will sound as a band.

I cannot remember a time when I did not want to go to Africa to study animals.

I'm interested in villainy.

I like pushing the envelope. But I don't like to do it just for the sake of doing it.

My Umi said shine your light on the world, shine your light for the world to see

How much must I overcome before I triumph?