"There are dark black buttons tattooed on my heart. I’ll carry them for the rest of my days."

“I'm not going to try and change how people perceive me. I think it's important to be a contradiction. People are contradictions; everyone has contradictions. So I don't expect anyone to look at me differently.”

“And along with indifference to space, there was an even more complete indifference to time. "There seems to be plenty of it", was all I would answer when the investigator asked me to say what I felt about time. Plenty of it, but exactly how much was entirely irrelevant. I could, of course, have looked at my watch but my watch I knew was in another universe. My actual experience had been, was still, of an indefinite duration. Or alternatively, of a perpetual present made up of one continually changing apocalypse.”

“Youth need less critics and more models.”

“Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.”

“Goals are like the gas in your car, you may go in many different directions after you fill up, but with out the gas you are not going anywhere”

“When I was 6 years old, I was in a rock band that was horrible called 'Dead End.' The name kind of described us. People liked us; we would go and perform at coffee houses and stuff.”

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

Source : Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated

“The rate of population growth in the United States is slightly below that required to reproduce itself.”

Source : Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”