Concentrate on the correct movement each time you exercise, lest you do them improperly and thus lose all the vital benefits. Correctly executed and mastered to the point of subconscious reaction, these exercises will reflect grace and balance in your routine activities.

Contrology develops the body uniformly, corrects wrong postures, restores physical vitality, invigorates the mind, and elevates the spirit.

Contrology is designed to give you suppleness, natural grace, and skill that will be unmistakably reflected in the way you walk, in the way you play, and in the way you work.

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

It’s the mind itself which shapes the body.

Americans! They want to go 600 miles an hour, and they don’t know how to walk! Look at them in the street. Bent over. Coughing! Young men with gray faces! Why can’t they look at the animals? Look at a cat. Look at any animal. The only animal that doesn’t hold its stomach in is the pig.

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

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

Pilates is gaining the mastery of your mind over the complete control over your body.

Physical fitness can neither be acquired by wishful thinking nor by outright purchase.

By all means never fail to get all the sunshine and fresh air you can.

In 10 sessions you’ll feel the difference, in 20 you’ll see the difference, and in 30 you’ll have a new body

You will feel better in ten sessions, look better in twenty sessions, and have a completely new body in thirty sessions.

Never slouch as doing so compresses the lungs, overcrowds other vital organs, rounds the back, and throws you off balance.

Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness.

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

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.

You are only as young as your spine is flexible.

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.