True flexibility can be achieved only when all muscles are uniformly developed

Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness. In order to achieve happiness, it is imperative to gain mastery of your body. If at the age of 30 you are stiff and out of shape, you are old. If at 60 you are supple and strong then you are young.

Good posture can be successfully acquired only when the entire mechanism of the body is under perfect control.

By exercising your stomach muscles, you wring out the body, you don't catch colds, you don't get cancer, you don't get hernias. Do animals get hernias? Do animals go on diets?

The acquirement and enjoyment of physical well-being, mental calm and spiritual peace are priceless to their possessors.

The Pilates Method teaches you to be in control of your body and not at its mercy.

You must squeeze every atom of impure air from lungs until they are almost as free of air as a vacuum.