Every moment of our life can be the beginning of great things.

We retire too early and we die too young, our prime of life should be in the 70's and old age should not come until we are almost 100.

The mind, when housed within a healthful body, possesses a glorious sense of power.

As a heavy rainstorm freshens the water of a sluggish or stagnant stream and whips it into immediate action, so does the Pilates Methods purify the bloodstream.

Contrology is not a system of haphazard exercises designed to produce only bulging muscles. ... Nor does Contrology err either by over-developed a few muscles at the expense of all others with resulting loss of grace and suppleness, or a sacrifice of the heart or lungs. Rather, it was conceived to limber and stretch muscles and ligaments so that your body will be as supple as that of a cat and not muscular like that of the body of a brewery-truck horse, or the muscle-bound body of the professional weight lifter you so much admire at the circus.

Above all, learn to breathe correctly.

It is better to be tired from physical exertion than to be fatigued by the 'poisons' generated by nervousness while lying awake.