I must be right. Never an aspirin. Never injured a day in my life. The whole country, the whole world, should be doing my exercises. They'd be happier.

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

If your spine is inflexibly stiff at 30, you are old. IF it is completely flexible at 60, you are young.

When all your muscles are properly developed, you will, as a matter of course, perform your work with minimum effort and maximum pleasure.

Before any real benefit can be derived from physical exercises, one must first learn how to breath properly. Our very life depends on it.

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.

A man is as old as his spine is flexible!