Never slouch as doing so compresses the lungs, overcrowds other vital organs, rounds the back, and throws you off balance.

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.

We are at war. War has a way of stripping us of perspective. War is about life and death, and it paints everything in shades of now or never.

Every Moment can be History of tomorrow but its upon us what to do with this Moment"-Samar Sudha

Man is broken down in many places because of bitterness.

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.

There are moments in your life where you're like I have arrived. I'm here and I'm living and I'm present. And working with Jean Paul Gaultier was one of them.

We lived in a real rough place but my mother kept me straight.

We believe strongly that the road to peace and two states living side by side does not go through New York, it goes through Jerusalem and Ramallah.

For me, hair is an accoutrement. Hair is jewelry. It's an accessory.

Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.

I think everything has its place. So if the ideas or the fluidity isn't coming in writing, maybe it's related to ingestions.