Every tooth in a man’s head is more valuable than a diamond.

The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.

Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.

The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

What are men anyway but balloons on legs, a lot of blown-up bladders?

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.

To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.

One’s body, hair, and skin are a gift from one’s parents—do not dare to allow them to be harmed.

Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.

There is only one antidote to mental suffering and that is physical pain.

I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.

As the saying goes, an old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.