Ideally, our muscles should obey our will. Reasonably, our will should not be dominated by the reflex actions of our muscles.

Breathing is the first act of life, and the last.

Were man to devote as much time and energy to himself as he has devoted to that which man has produced, what astounding and unbelievable progress would be made; a progress eclipsing all he has so far successfully accomplished.

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

You're only as old as your spine.

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

I'm fifty years ahead of my time.