Self-confidenc e, poise, consciousness of possessing the power to accomplish our desires, with renewed lively interest in life are the natural results of the practice of Contrology [Pilates].

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

Contrology is not a fatiguing system of dull, boring, abhorred exercises repeated daily "ad-nausem".

It is the mind itself which builds the body.

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.

You are only as young as your spine is flexible.

Breathing is the first act of life and the last. Our very life depends on it. Since we cannot live without breathing it is tragically deplorable to contemplate the millions and millions who have never mastered the art of correct breathing.