A few well-designed movements, properly performed in a balanced sequence, are worth hours of doing sloppy calisthenics or forced contortion.

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

Patience and persistence are vital qualities in the ultimate successful accomplishment of any worthwhile endeavor.

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.

Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness. Our interpretation of physical fitness is the attainment and maintenance of a uniformly developed body with a sound mind fully capable of naturally, easily, and satisfactorily performing our many and varied daily tasks with spontaneous zest and pleasure.

The Pilates Method of Body Conditioning is gaining the mastery of your mind over the complete control of your body.