"Walking is man's best medicine."
    --Hippocrates

“Better wilt thou live...by neither always pressing out to sea nor too closely hugging the dangerous shore in cautious fear of storms.”
     --Horace, Odes Book II: Ode X

"The body must be nourished physically, emotionally, and spiritually.   We're spiritually starved in this culture--not underfed but undernourished."
    --Carol Hornig 

"...to these Teachers of Zen; you want a zafu cushion? sit your zen ass on a bicycle
seat and peddle into hurricane wind for 8 hours at your max effort; there is your ENGAGED ZEN!"
    --Steve Ilg

"...i cherish the places my fitness has allowed me to see and feel."
    --Steve Ilg

"Do the DO!"
    --Steve Ilg

“Modern man creates fancy cars while losing the sacredness of his feet and lungs.”
    --Steve Ilg

"Lack of Confidence, low Self-Esteem, and depleted Mojo are symptoms of inadequate Strength Training."
    --Steve Ilg

"No champion has ever lifted a trophy that was not already being held inside."
    --Steve Ilg, "Total Body Transformation"

"...a real yogin...does not see the difference between a lump of dirt and a lump of gold
(in fact, i would choose the former...at least i could mountain bike on it!)”
    --Steve Ilg

"We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance."
    --Japanese Proverb

 "Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise, and the weather shall be little regarded.  If the body is feeble, the mind will not be strong."
     --Thomas Jefferson

"We are all prompted by the same Motives, all deceived by the same Fallacies, all animated by Hope, obstructed by Danger, entangled by Desire, and seduced by Pleasure.
    --Samuel Johnson, The Rambler #60, 1750

"Child obesity is child abuse!"
    --Ron Jones

"Fitness is power.  Get it on."
    --Ron Jones

"The obvious is to the fool."
    --Ron Jones

"Raise your kids like Jack LaLanne instead of Jack in the Box!"
    --Ron Jones

"Knowledge is power; health and fitness allows you to feel it."
    --Ron Jones

"We must live our lives in such a way that our children, and their children after them, will form a natural and lasting commitment to the vigorous life.  Only in this way can we be assured that the spirit and strength of America will be constantly replenished.."
    --President John F. Kennedy, U.S. Official Physical Fitness Program Booklet, 1963

"You can't turn back the clock, but you can rewind it."
    --Art Linkletter

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
    --Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"The essence of decay is inactivity."
    --Jack La Lanne, Fitness Pioneer

"Any stupid ass can die--you have to work at living!"
    --Jack La Lanne, Fitness Pioneer

"A sound mind in a sound body, is a short but full description of a happy state in this world."
    --John Locke

"Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.  Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."
     --Alex Lowe

"When you remove the risk, you remove the challenge.  When you remove the challenge, you wither on the vine."
    --Alex Lowe

"Life is not living, but living in health."
     --Martial, Epigrams (A.D. 86)

“Health plus, all things else being equal, is what makes the champion, the expert, the "Captain," in any and every line. It supplies the courage, the daring, the boldness, the aggressiveness of life. It is what makes initiative possible, bulldog pertinacity effective, and achievement assured. "
    --Bernarr Macfadden, Physical Culturist

"Let's change the world--one body at a time!"
    --Mandy Merkel & Ron Jones

"My lifestyle determines my deathstyle."
    --Metallica

"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness."
     --John Muir, John of the Mountains (1938)

"I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found."
     --John Muir, A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf (1916)

"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.  Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.  The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves."
     --John Muir, Our National Parks (1901)

“It is imperative to master the principles of the art of war and learn to be unmoved in mind even in the heat of the battle.”
    --Miyamoto Musashi (1643)

“The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.”
    --George Orwell

“Aut disce, aut discede.” (Learn or get out!)
     --Oxford College, Circa 17th-18th C.